DJT: "I am the Father of IVF!"
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Donald Trump claimed to be the Father of IVF at a town hall meeting recently. What did he mean? Did the audience of mostly women not know the pioneers’ names? Quite likely.
There’s a huge difference between counterfactuals and contrafactuals. The first is when we ask … like what would have happened IF the shooter had missed Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914? The second is when we deliberately lie or make a false claim … like styling myself with feathers and a gourd for modesty as a Dani tribesman (as New Guinea friends teased me). You can decide between alternative explanations of Trump’s claim or dismiss it as another off-day.
He also told a tale about immigrants eating cats belonging to residents of Springfield, OH. There was no IF in that statement. It reminded me of thriving businesses in London that sold “Cat and Dog Meat.” But this is a double entendre, not a contrafactual slur of my pet-loving hometown because they sold meat for and not from pets. It was an end-product of the knacker’s yard.
Images: Commemorative blue plaque in Oldham, Lancashire, and a London street selling fresh cat and dog meat long ago.
I almost spat out my breakfast tea when I read his comment in the news. How can someone who lies so blatantly, who is so deluded as to make that claim, be considered fit to lead anything, let alone the US?
Do you mean you didn’t know he was part of the Steptoe and Edwards team? It was all his idea, a very very good idea, the best idea 😆