Professor suspected of being a terrorist because of a math equation

Ignorance is dangerous to your freedom.

From: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/05/07/professors-airplane-math-leads-flight-delay/84084914/

A math equation landed an Ivy League professor on an American Airlines flight in questioning Thursday under suspicion of being a terrorist.

Guido Menzio, an economist at the University of Pennsylvania, was working on a differential equation while waiting for the Syracuse-bound plane to take off from Philadelphia, the Washington Post reported. He had to present the findings of a working paper at Queen's University. But a passenger somehow mistook the equation for Arabic or some sort of Islamic code for a terrorist attack.

That's how the 41-minute flight ended up delayed by two hours—a false alarm the olive-skinned, curly, dark-haired native Italian chalked up to racial profiling.

From: http://www.philly.com/philly/news/2...is__quot_terrorist__quot__flight_delayed.html

In his own social media post, Menzio wrote: "The lady just looked at me, looked at my writing of mysterious formulae, and concluded I was up to no good. Because of that an entire flight was delayed. . . . Trump's America is already here. It's not yet in power though. Personally, I will fight back."

Last year, he won the Carlo Alberto Medal for Best Italian Economist Under 40.




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Oh. Too bad. He would have qualified for the title of Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinoise in Chicago.

Obama might have called him, "friend."

 

Dumb.

Sent from my Motorola Droid Turbo.

 

Illinoise? Sheesh.

 

The guy's reasoning skills obviously don't go beyond math...

 

Seriously?

 

Try telling that to those who believe that Trump is a true Conservative.

 

Seems to be on Bill Ayers' resume.

 

Look at the replies.