I’ve suspected for a number of years that his handlers have been controlling everything he says and writes.
First, you make him sound like he is the most brilliant man on earth. Of course, leftists think they are brilliant but they can be questioned and they are political.
So here we have Hawking, and Hawking ain’t really talking, but some people are talking for him.
Hawking can push these leftists ideas as settled science and no one can refute him.