More breaking bee news! Alert (or somewhat conscious, anyway) MT.Net reader Matt alerted me to Bill Maher using the unverified Einstein quote to end his Real Time with Bill Maher show last week.
Also buzz-bombed is BBC Radio 2, and Discovery Channel Europe, according to Snopesters hot on the trail. Snopes now has a proper Einstein bees page in its Urban Legends section. That entry is now the top Google search result for “Einstein bees” Google queries, as it should be. I suppose my work here is done.
I consider the whole incident an insightful look at just how mentally lazy people can get when it comes to accepting facts (or those purported to be facts). Its obvious that critical thinking skills should be exercised more often than they are.