Was Stephen Hawking’s Illness Psychosomatic? (No.)

A British doctor is questioning Stephen Hawking's illness. It's mostly shocking the bad take was published.

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By Neuroskeptic
May 25, 2019 7:40 PMFeb 24, 2020 2:41 AM
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Physicist Stephen Hawking in 1993. (Credit: David Montgomery/Getty Images)

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A paper in a peer-reviewed medical journal makes the suggestion that physicist Stephen Hawking’s disability, which famously confined him to a wheelchair and robbed him of his speech, was psychosomatic in nature.

Hmm. I think this says more about the author than it does about Hawking.

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