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Comment by ziggzagg | Hacker News Reader

We keep hearing that Hawking makes his concerning comments about subjects like AI, aliens and now national health insurance. He is a theoretical physicist.

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Yes, this article while reasonable and indicating actual concerns is another reason why the right feels like science and academia in general is against them.

Hawking is using his position of authority in physics to push for progressive political change. I'm not saying I'm against this but I'm of the view people should take a more realist approach to articles such as this.

With a lot of experience using of the health system he talks of.

?? As do literally tens of millions of people in the UK.

Whatever, dude. Do you agree with what he says or not?

BTW Jeremy Hunt's only qualification to be in charge of the NHS was to be the MD of Hot Courses before he became an MP. Who cares?

yeh he's "only" a theoretical physicist, with highly advanced mathematical skills and exceptional topological visualization capabilities, who's dedicated his life to studying cosmology while suffering one of the world's most nightmarish diseases

Evidently you are under the impression that argument by authority has some merit. It does not. His qualification to comment remains as with anybody else, the quality of the actual arguments and the nature of any supporting evidence that he puts forward on a particular subject.

Well yes, but I take it you also understand he has motor neurone disease and has therefore been contact with the NHS a great deal during his life.

tell me, who do you trust on this issue more: Hawking or Hunt ?

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