Umm…what did he just say?
President Joe Biden claimed on Tuesday that he spoke to the man who invented insulin, even though the doctor died before Biden was even born.
This latest speech blunder happened during an event held in Hallandale Beach, Florida. Biden promoted his administration’s efforts to lower healthcare costs for Americans.
“How many of you know somebody with diabetes, and needs insulin,” Biden asked the crowd.
“Do you know how much it costs to make that insulin drug for diabetes? It was invented by a man who did not patent it because he wanted it available for everyone. I spoke to him, OK?” Biden claimed.
Dr. Frederick Banting and professor John James Richard Macleod were awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1923 for their 1921 discovery of insulin. Banting died in 1941 and Macleod in 1935. Biden was born in 1942.
Banting refused to put his name on the insulin patent because he felt it was unethical to do so as a physician who had taken the Hippocratic oath. Macleod similarly declined to be named on the patent.
If Biden was referring to two other doctors involved in the discovery of insulin who were alive after his birth, however, both of those doctors are named on the patent, contrary to Biden’s claim.
The first insulin patent application was in the name of James Collip, a Ph.D. biochemist, and Charles Best, a medical student. Best died in 1979 and Collip in 1965.
Collip and Best transferred the patent rights to the University of Toronto for $1.
While Biden was still present at the event he also stated his late son Beau lost his life while serving in Iraq.
“They talk about inflation … inflation is a worldwide problem right now because of a war in Iraq and the impact on oil and what Russia’s doing. Excuse me, the war in Ukraine,” the president said. “I’m thinking about Iraq because that’s where my son died.”
However, we all know that Biden’s son Beau died of brain cancer in 2015 at the age of 46. It even says so on Wikipedia and all over the internet if searched.
This deluded, lying, senile excuse for a President and His Administration has once again emphasized and thoroughly underscored my stance on the current administration. While I would love to voice my opinion, I am quite sure that the current administration would have me thrown into one of their Democrat Gulags and abrogate my First Amendment Rights as I disappeared from the face of the earth. What does that say, when fear of the current administration forces a reign of fear, terror, and silence here in the, “Land Of The Free” ??