The left thought of him as god.. The Guardian view on Stephen Hawking: the mind of God Opinion-The Guardian-Mar 14, 2018 ..because of his flying spaghetti monster theories of the universe which won no Nobels due to their lack of evidence. Lack of evidence put Hawking's Nobel hopes in black hole NEWS.com.au-Mar 14, 2018 “The Nobel prize is not given to the smartest person or even the one who makes the greatest contribution to science. It's given to discovery,” said California Institute of Technology physicist Sean Carroll. “Hawking's best theories have not yet been tested experimentally, which is why he hasn't won a prize.”.
FFS, what in god's name does it have to do with left or right? The man achieved incredible things while almost 100% paralysed. None of us who are in full possession of our physical faculties can even begin to imagine what it's like. Have some goddamn respect.
Oh for fucks sake! This anti-science anti-education craziness is just idiotic. The guy is universally recognized by other physicists as both a great physicist and one with the rare ability to make high level physics accessible to your average intellectually curious individual. Even you could probably understand A Brief History of Time if you could get off your rabid political soapbox for 2 seconds to read it. You, on the other hand are recognized by no-one for anything other than pure the pure obnoxiousness of making everything about your politics. Perhaps you could enlighten us on your background in physics and how that qualifies you pontificate on Hawking? Clearly based on the quote you took out of context you either know nothing about how physics discovery happens or you're purposely being intellectually dishonest, which is it?
Actually I figured out exactly what was happening inside @fhl's limited little brain and it's hilarious. There's a prominent evolutionary biologist named Richard Dawkins who is famous for refuting theism. One of the arguments he and others who try to reason with religious fundamentalists use is that there's just as much proof of the fundamentalist christian god as there is of a flying spaghetti monster, and just as much reason to worship either. He's a favorite villain of the fundys. Braniac @fhl here got Dawkins confused with Hawkins and thought they were the same guy!. Apparently they have the same ....kins ring to thier names and I guess they are both British, so close enough right? You just can't make this shit up!