Follow-up

A reader wrote to tell me that my wee rant about Stephen Hawking's comments was quoted -- but not linked! can you believe it? -- in a piece that appeared yesterday on Spiked.

Um, yeah. This is good .. I guess.

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Looking at the list of references at the bottom of the article, I see:

(2) The Legacy of a Star, scienceblogs.com, 13 June 2006

As far as I can tell, the other references are also not linked. I suggest his errors are equal opportunity. :-)