Publishing insiders were rumour mongering this morning that the title of the next book by esteemed physicist Stephen Hawking is to be “A Brief History of C*nts.
The title is thought to be derived from the Twitter spat developing between Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt and national treasure Stephen Hawking.
Stephen Hawking is well regarded as the largest living brain in Britain and someone whose opinions are worth serious consideration, while Mr Hunt as something rather different.
It seems the Secretary of State has been irked by Mr Hawking going all scientist on him and critiquing his possible misuse of scientific research to further a suspected agenda of selling off the NHS to profit driven corporations who will of course keep healing the poor and sick as their primary motivation.
Mr Hawking set out to demonstrate how Mr Jeremy is cherry picking research papers with the suspected motivation of erroneously claiming that anyone ever dying on a weekend has only the NHS to blame.
It’s well known that Britain has dispensed with expert opinion in favour of the whims and ambitions of privileged men like Mr Jeremy and his pal Michael Gove.
On this basis someone with a lifetime of intimate experience of complex national health services and a rare ability to actually understand what Einstein was on about and translate it in a readable book is a clear and present threat.
Other scientists, researchers and concerned members of the public have weighed in to support Stephen Hawking on twitter.
There are growing calls for Mr Hunt to come face to face with Mr Hawking in a televised debate on the subject. Although given Hawking is certain to strip the disingenuous arguments of Hunt to the bone in any such encounter it’s less likely to occur than the discovery of a way to time travel.
It’s reasonable to assume anyone shoring up the shaky and potentially dangerous position of Mr Hunt on what needs doing with the NHS is likely to be just as cunning, unethical, nauseous and tardy with published research papers as Jeremy Hunt is alleged to be.
Most probably by the time this tug of war has played out Jeremy Hunt will be fervently praying a method of time travel will be discovered and soon so he can return to the moment just before he decided to start attacking Stephen Hawking.
