Richard Posner, the influential judge and law and economics scholar, has written a blog reaction to Pope Benedict XVI's recently publicized comments on condoms. Posner's argument (that the pope is probably going to have to OK condoms in the near future) has its own sort of internal logic, but it doesn't relate to anything in real life because all his facts are wrong.
What's mystifying is that the concepts and facts that trip Posner up are not exactly obscure or hard to ascertain. If Posner had bothered simply to reference the Catechism -- the very first place one would look, and instantly accessible online -- he would have avoided most of the egregious errors he makes.
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