Hawking Hawking: The Selling of a Scientific Celebrity

Re:Hawking Hawking: The Selling of a Scientific Celebrity by williamtrask on Saturday March 12, 2022 @12:42PM (#30653129)

I think a comparison of the relative impact of Nobel Prize winners and Olympic gold medal winners would dispute your claim regarding moral worth. I can’t think of an athletic equivalent to the invention of vaccines, solar power, democracy, the internet, or even the concept of morality itself.

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Re:Hawking Hawking: The Selling of a Scientific Celebrity by Alekhine on Saturday March 12, 2022 @05:35PM (#30655640)

In the grand scheme, those things are more important. But coming up with an idea or solving a puzzle does not make a person better than another. Getting an Olympic medal could take equivalent effort to making a major scientific breakthrough. Its just that the kind of effort being made is different.

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Re:Hawking Hawking: The Selling of a Scientific Celebrity by Ar-Curunir on Saturday March 12, 2022 @02:36PM (#30654177)

By that metric, most people are worthless.

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