idiots in the media

Wow, I just read an interview with Sanjay Gupta, the "Chief Medical Correspondent" for CNN.

First off, he stated that the obesity epidemic in the US is "the cold war of our generation."

Take a minute to think about that and try to figure it out. I can't.

Then, he followed it up with one of the most blatant technical misunderstandings that I've seen in print from a professional in a long time:

"There's something known as Moore's law, which means that we basically double our scientific knowledge every few years. What this really means is that we probably know twice as much now as we did in 1997, which wasn't that long ago."

Oh my fucking god. My brain just leapt out of my ears, and left on a road trip to track down Dr Gupta and beat the living shit out of him.