Well, Teddy Kennedy showed his stupidity once again today by falling for one of Mankind’s oldest logical fallacies; a fallacy so old it is stated in a dead, millennial-old language: Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc ”After this, therefore because of this”.
In an argument against building a wall on the entire U.S.-Mexican border, Ted cited the rise in border-crosser deaths that occurred after California built an effective fence on it’s southern border; saying Cali’s fence caused the illegals to go through Arizona’s more arid desert and die. To show his poor reasoning (that the fence caused the deaths ergo more fences will result in more deaths) you must think of this in a turn-about fashion- what action, either by the illegals or us, would result in fewer or no deaths for border-crossers? Answer: the discontinuation of the practice. If they stop coming, or we build an effective wall, they won’t die in our deserts, period.
But, this is too much for Teddy, a Harvard grad, to understand; and it is up to me, an University of Oregon grad, to point out to him. Hey Harvard board, don’t you understand that the “value” of a University is largely measured in the performance of the people it grants degrees? Teddy is decreasing your academic worth!
Scorpius 
