EUROLUDDISM AND ITS REFUGEES: Reader Chris Fox writes:

With all the other stuff going on in Europe yesterday it was easy to miss, but the WSJ has a big article today on Swiss drug maker Novartis’ partial exit from the Continent. Seems that Novartis brass have come to terms with the fact that Europe is a swiftly falling star in the world of pharmaceutical research, and announced that they would be moving all research to the Boston area. Put this news up against the mass exodus of
European drug companies over the past few years to New Jersey(!) and you’ve got another dead rat on the European Union’s collective kitchen floor. The Journal article does a great job laying the groundwork and explaining how socialized medicine has already killed the Euro’s will to compete or innovate.

Yes, I saw the article in today’s print WSJ. Well, it’s not just socialized medicine — though that plays its part — but also the general antitechnology attitude among the Greens, the Killer Vegan Animal Rights Loonies, and so on.

Of course, it looks like Pipebomb Boy may be one of those last himself. Loser.