Dr. Benny Peiser 06.01.2012 12:58 +Feedback
Scientists Criticise Hawking’s Doomsday ‘Hype’
2012: Mankind faces nuclear armageddon and must build colonies on Mars and beyond, Stephen Hawking has said.—2001: Professor Stephen Hawking’s latest fears for the future of humanity have been criticised by academics for being contradictory and little more than hype for his forthcoming book. The famous physicist said that the human race was likely to be wiped out by a manmade, doomsday virus before the millennium was out, unless we set up colonies in space. Dr Benny Peiser was highly critical of the reported remarks. He told BBC News Online that Hawking’s predictions of terrestrial disaster had become increasingly wide-ranging and unreasonable in recent years.