Bill Maher & SARS: Most Spectacularly Wrong Forecast of All Time
(HBO/YouTube) It’s easy to complain about Twitter, but sometimes it delivers a spectacular gem. The Pessimists Archive rediscovered this clip of Bill Maher in 2003, shortly after the SARS outbreak in Asia: Anti-vaxxer Bill Maher on the prospect of a global Pandemic (2003) “Stop scaring us with diseases we will never get.” “Mysterious asian disease don’t come knocking on your door.” pic.twitter.com/5jXjFuhJ1L “New rule: Stop scaring us with diseases we will never get!” Maher declares to chuckles from the audience. “First it was SARS, then it was monkeypox, West Nile, and now ...