Sommes-nous trop en retard?

“Of course, it’s a step up from ‘moron,’ ‘imbecile,’ or ‘idiot,’ which were actually codified as appropriate technical terms in 1910 by the AAMR, then known as the Association of Medical Officers of American Institutions for Idiots and Feeble-Minded Persons.”

— Slate columnist John Cook on the ever-fading use of ‘retarded’ as a technical term. Too bad he didn’t tell us where the term ‘quack’ resides on this staircase of dim-bulbery.