Forgive my total ignorance on Hawking, but I know what Einstein did. I know what Oppenheimer did. I even know what Heller and Feinman did. But other than black hole theory’s and becoming a media whore like Neil deGrasse Tyson has become, what in the hell did he contribute of substance? I here nothing but liberal bullish!t with no backing
Hawking was a very ironically telegenic science celebrity who did some seminal work on black holes, some important bits of which have been superseded over the last couple of decades. I admire him for his fight against his disease, not for being an oracular scientist, which he was not.