I caught that a long time ago.
Hawkings jumped the shark a long time ago.
FGS, he's worried about aliens taking over, and how we *must* colonize other planets for the human race to survive.
Because mother earth is doomed, or something.
When he talks politics, he erases any semblance of "genius".
He just comes off as some kind of kook.
Kook is being nice. The guy is a whacked-out monstrous freak show on wheels with a creepy squawk box who rose to celebrity status because of his physical disabilities, but no one wants to call him on his shit precisely because he’s an idiot leftard in good standing. He turned in his respected scientist card years ago.
The scientific field is rife with leftist quacks like him.