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Paul Ginsparg. appeared as "The Truth Is Still Out There", New York Times Op-Ed, 3 Aug 2004, http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/03/opinion/03ginsparg.html 2004

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Stephen Hawking’s recent concession that black holes do not irretrievably eradicate information after all has garnered much attention. It is refreshing to see the public focused, if just for a moment, on an important conundrum that has fascinated theoretical physicists for three decades, and prompted much conceptual progress. The scientific issues, however, remain much less settled than Dr. Hawking’s celebrated wager on the question.