The intellectual Noam Chomsky, 95, left the São Paulo hospital this Tuesday, where he was admitted after suffering a stroke a year ago, to continue treatment at home. “Beneficência Portuguesa de São Paulo informs that the patient Avram Noam Chomsky was discharged from the hospital this Tuesday to continue treatment at home,” says the official medical report of the medical center, which clarifies the state of health of Chomsky, linguist and one of the leading intellectuals of the American and world left. The medical report is signed by the executive director of the center and a cardiologist.
Chomsky is in Brazil because it is the native country of his wife, the linguist Valeria Wasseran. Just a few days ago, Folha de S. Paulo published that the influential thinker was hospitalized in a medical center in São Paulo, where the couple owns a home.
The official medical report comes after a few hours full of confusion after some media published that Chomsky had died. The supposed news spread at full speed until it became a trend on the X network. His wife has denied that Chomsky has died in response to queries from several people, including Steven Pinker. “The information about the death of Noam Chomsky (in Jacobin and New Statesman, now deleted) were very exaggerated. I have confirmation from Valeria, his wife, that he is alive and well,” the cognitive scientist has written in X.
So much Jacobin as New Statesman They published two obituaries, the second signed by Yanis Varoufakis, who was Minister of Finance of Greece.
The American who revolutionized linguistics in the 1950s and a harsh critic of his country’s foreign policy suffered a stroke a year ago in the United States, where he lived with his wife. Until then and despite his advanced age, he was still active in academic and political spheres. He even drove. But the stroke left him bedridden, with serious difficulties communicating. On an undetermined date, Chomsky was transferred to Brazil at the request of Wasserman, who rented a private plane for the transfer in which two nurses accompanied them.
According to the information of Folha Last week, Wasserman decided to transfer after coming to the conclusion that American doctors considered her husband unrecoverable. The São Paulo newspaper claimed that Chomsky reads daily The New York Times.
After many decades of teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in 2017 he joined the University of Tucson, in Arizona.
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