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This is a letter that appeared in the Kansas City Star last Wednesday. Because you would have to sign up for the service and it's relatively short, I present it in its entirety. (snip)
Darn flip-floppers
Where's the outrage over Stephen Hawking's blatant flip-flopping on the issue of black holes (7/22, A-9, “Physicist plugs the holes in his black hole concept”)?
For 29 years he claimed that they don't emit information; now all of a sudden they do. Which one is it, Professor Hawking?
Hawking claims that he thought about this question and realized that he had been mistaken in his previous assumptions.
I think most people will agree that we need scientists who are resolute, who stay the course no matter what the so-called “evidence” suggests.
(snip)
Too bad the sarcasm is more than likely lost on those it was aimed at.
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