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Its generally understood that no one is perfect...

Pointing this out while discussing the death of possibly the most respected scientist ever to a tech & science literate crowd is quite unnecessary.

RIP SH.

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You prove the necessity by trying to shoehorn this into "nobody's perfect." This "tech & science literate" mob circle jerk enables bad science and bad behavior. I doubt many here even know what Hawking really contributed. He simply embodies some need to worship a disabled genius. No one wants to hear it from me. I get it, but I thought just one person should speak up.

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