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<p>Create book page: Stephen Hawking Smoked My Socks (Hilton Ratcliffe, 2014) — researched via web</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Infobox book<br /> | name = Stephen Hawking Smoked My Socks: How Beliefs Contaminate Our Opinions — An Astrophysicist&#039;s Perspective<br /> | author = [[Hilton Ratcliffe]]<br /> | published = 2014<br /> | publisher = Muse Harbor Publishing<br /> | isbn = 978-1-61264-165-2<br /> }}<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;Stephen Hawking Smoked My Socks: How Beliefs Contaminate Our Opinions — An Astrophysicist&#039;s Perspective&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039; is a 2014 book by the South African astrophysicist [[Hilton Ratcliffe]], published by the U.S.-based Muse Harbor Publishing in November 2014.<br /> <br /> The book asks why a handful of scientists — Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein foremost among them — become world-famous figures, and argues that their fame has little to do with the substance of their science. Ratcliffe uses this as a starting point to examine how belief shapes and &quot;contaminates&quot; opinion, the tension between belief and instinct in forming a worldview, and what he characterises as the suffocating control that scientific orthodoxy exercises over dissenting ideas. It continues the sceptical, anti-consensus themes of his earlier books &#039;&#039;[[The Virtue of Heresy: Confessions of a Dissident Astronomer]]&#039;&#039; and &#039;&#039;[[The Static Universe: Exploding the Myth of Cosmic Expansion]]&#039;&#039;.<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> <br /> * [https://www.museharbor.com/stephen-hawking-smoked-my-socks/ Stephen Hawking Smoked My Socks] at Muse Harbor Publishing<br /> * [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24074637-stephen-hawking-smoked-my-socks Stephen Hawking Smoked My Socks] on Goodreads<br /> <br /> [[Category:Book|Stephen Hawking Smoked My Socks]]<br /> [[Category:Cosmology|Stephen Hawking Smoked My Socks]]</div>

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