Greedy Trial Lawyer
John Stossel Redux - Can He Be Saved?
Category: In Your Face
Blog 702 takes the time necessary to dissect the pathetic babbling of John Stossel in his recent column which concludes that our present civil justice system has suffocated innovation in America.
Stossel's words:
Sure, fear of the "invisible fist" makes manufacturers more careful. Some lives have been saved because the litigation threat got companies to make their products safer. That's the "seen" benefit.But that benefit comes with a bigger unseen cost: The fear that stops the bad things stops good things, too -- new vaccines, new drugs, new medical devices. Fear suffocates the innovation that, over the past century, has helped extend our life spans by almost 30 years. Every day, we lose good things.
Wow! Who knows how long we will live if we close our courts to civil lawsuits?
We are violating our own prescription against polluting the national discourse on medical malpractice liability with partisan polemic. We're sorry, but we just can't help ourselves.
Having made its original appearance in the August 4 New York Sun, an anti-tort* column by ABC's John Stossel (you know, the guy who needs a break) has now been pressed into service as a retread at Point of Law.
It is a retread in more than one particular. In the space of a few short paragraphs, it deploys so many shopworn propagandistic parlor tricks that it's hard to keep track of them all.
Earlier, I had sent an open letter to Mr. Stossel expressing concern about his mental processes. Blog 702 has probably correctly diagnosed the situation as parlor trickery. In either case, John needs help.
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