Physicist Stephen Hawking throws ‘er into reverse:
“I have received a number of e-mails from Palestinian academics. They are unanimous that I should respect the boycott. In view of this, I must withdraw from the conference. Had I attended I would have stated my opinion that the policy of the present Israeli government is likely to lead to disaster.”
h/t maz2
Palestinian academics would study what, maybe some chemistry and math, what else does one need to have a “full blown” career?
Hawkins would have been of the first into a Nazi furnace.
Take it for what it really is.
Hawking is not a strapping six foot two male capable of defending himself.
He’s a sitting duck.
The cowards are threatening those who cannot defend themselves and eliciting predictable responses.
A true scientist would not descend to the illogic of anti-Semitism; one cannot, at this time, take Mr. Hawkins seriously as a thinker.
Another eruption from the has-been. It is annoying, but on the other hand any conference where Stephen Hawking is a key speaker is not worth attending.
I don’t know enough physics to know if Stephen Hawkings is as brilliant as the mainstream media likes to make out. I do know enough about the mainstream media to know that if he didn’t have his disability they wouldn’t have made him famous and they wouldn’t know or care if he were consorting with Israelis or Palestinians.
He’s been slowly becoming more odd over time. Not just politics, other public statements and theories he’s put forward. I’m worried he’s loosing it.
Oxymoron of the day: “Palestinian Academic”.
Read Thomas Sowell’s Intellectuals and Society. When learned people step out of their area of expertise their opinion has no more validity or gravitas than common people, like you and me. So ignore them.
Lorne Russell, you named it. Stephen Hawkins has a knowledge a mile deep but only an inch wide. Physics, nothing else. Really, that’s no different from the Hollywood lefties who don’t even have a narrow band of intellectual knowledge but nevertheless expect we unwashed peasants to give great weight to their spoutings.
At 71 maybe his brain ain’t what it used to be.
frankly I don’t care what celebrates say anyway. They have proven over the years. Smart or not to be wrong, almost with a predictable factor every time almost.
I find his stand hypocritical at the least. When Ham-as throws rockets at innocent people .
I could be wrong but isn’t Hawking’s voice synthesizer built with Israeli technology? Maybe they should recall it and remind him that he should be silent when he doesn’t know what the heck he’s talking about…
Can’t think of anything new that Hawking has come up with over the last decade. Never was particularly impressed with him and he seems to be a moonbat darling because of their reverence of cripples that don’t behave as a cripple should. His brain may be of interest when he does die as it will indicate whether ALS affects only motor neurons or whether other cortical pyramidal cells degenerate as well.
A true scientist would ignore anything outside of their realm of interest and Paul Erdos was so totally devoted to mathematics that nothing else had any interest for him. Also, a true scientist would have no regard for “unanimity” as a herd of morons all believing something that is at variance with reality is false regardless of how many more people they get to agree with them.
I seem to recall a certain dictator born on 20-April who denigrated “Jewish science” and I suspect that the palistinian “physicists” will suffer a similar fate. Presumably the cutting edge of palistinian physics is adjustment for relativistic effects in the equations of motion of their crude rockets launched at Israel.
Juxtapose
“But just one month after beginning an experimental treatment spearheaded at Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem, Rabbi Shmuelevitz was back on his feet, …. is being called the first ever recovery from ALS.”
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/stephen-hawking-boycotting-company-working-on-his-cure/2013/05/08/
I’m prompted to wonder how Hawking would be doing had he been born into a sharia-Islamist country.
lets say that the Pallis arent going to catch up to the Jews for Noble prizes anytime soon with or without his help . whats the ratio now ? about 100 to 1 ,
That is a relief. No point in reminding these savages that they are stuck in the 6th century. Without the west there would be no AK’s or toilet paper. Just rocks for wiping their bums and throwing at their betters when they spaz out during ‘splody boy temper tantrums.
Muslims would just ignore a modern physicist anyway:
http://www.pi-news.org/2010/08/gaza-woman-executed-for-being-a-witch/
Hawking is to physics what the Gorbull is to climate.
gordinkneehill nailed it. What do “palestinian academics” study?
Oh I forgot, rocket science. Unfortunately when they shoot for the moon they hit Israel.
Wait! There are Palestinian academics?
Do they leap through burning hoops of fire at this academy?
This is the most depressing thing I have read in many many years.
I’m pretty sure he is a very smart dude at what he does, but I being completely baffled by arithmetic, never mind mathematics, I am just not impressed. Let’s face it, we didn’t invent these marvelous formulas and theorems. They are part of creation, created by something infinitely smarter than ourselves; we merely stumble upon these incontrovertible laws!
And I would add that for far too long Jews in America have aligned themselves fiercely with the left and with the Democrats, and now the chickens are coming home to roost.
They will in time pay a huge price for their leftist obsessions.
It is sad.
In the comments at the site I recommended that if the Palestinian academics were serious about human rights the conference should be moved to Gaza City and open with a gay pride parade. I don’t think any of the clueless twits who inhabit the comments section at that site understood the implications.
This the same guy who believes we are going to contact genocidal aliens, who are going to come to earth and kill us all; just for some needed context.
I presume none of us have forgotten how he’s helped silence criticism of the NHS, which paid for his wheelchair and the nurse whom he somehow managed to trade in for his long-suffering wife.
Best argument for radical reform of the NHS I’ve ever sen. The little traitor wants his wheelchair, let Riyadh pay for it.
I tried to read one of his books once. Even stripped of higher mathematics his theories sound like so much scholastic sophistry. I defy you to explain to me how they’ve been applied, or could possibly ever be applied, to aid the rest of mankind. Einstein’s theories of conversion of energy and matter permitted the Christian world to turn the power with which God created the universe against His enemies, and give them the chance to have clean, safe energy too cheap to meter (thrown away, of course, at the insistence of Soviet and Arab agents who had nothing to gain and much to lose from energy independence of the Christian world). What can Hawking claim in this regard?
Understand our place in the universe? That’s what the Bible is for. If he didn’t get it the first time, possibly Hawking should read it again, with particular attention to God’s covenant to Israel, and his commandment to Israel to destroy Amalek.
// A true scientist would ignore anything outside of their realm of interest //
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Newton. Einstein , the first President of Israel ? …
The view that people should not engage in political activity outside their “area of expertise” is part of what’s wrong these days.
Stephen Hawking
Is the story about Hawking’s cancellation even true?
http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/05/08/report-hawking-israel-boycott-story-was-a-fraud-trip-canceled-for-health-reasons/
Did he yield to threats?
The Comments section at the Globe and Mail are frightfully revealing….
So a creepy cripple is a Jew hater? Strange world! I guess Jew hating fascists come in all sizes and shapes.
Or as an analyst of news, either. He’s become an object of humorous reference, nothing more.
There’s nothing unusual going on here. Many “brilliant” men of science are if fact savants. Hawking certainly is. These people have hypertrophied capabilities in one field, yet are almost child-like in others. Hawking’s recent forays into the realm of philosophy revealed him to be on par with a typical high-school kid in his thought processes.
A blunt analogy: Gretzky is a true genius at hockey, but that doesn’t mean he can automatically play Rachmaninoff on the piano.
Hawking is far from the only one, btw. Many of the popular figures these days (Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, et al) are embarrassingly incompetent when they set their minds to topics outside their field of expertise. Dawkins jeremiads against religion are about as well-informed and subtle as what one would expect from, well, an average high-school student. He sells tons of books to middlebrows at airport kiosks, though.
Hawking is justly famous for his work on black-body radiation in the 1970’s. His book “A Brief History of Time” was nice. Beyond that, he’s one of the only guys who has survived motor neuron disease for greater than five years.
Not who I’d be having on a “Middle East Peace” panel though.
It’s funny what passes for GENIUS these days
Being a renowned physicist would make him a geopolitical expert as well wouldn’t it?
Another Sheldon from the Big Bang Theory? The only difference being he can’t run as fast.