http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSL0111097620070806
Larry Niven saw this one coming decades ago. Welcome to the new millennium.
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.