Stephen Hawking, 62, the world-famous physicist who has been a victim of ALS since his early 20s, was born in Oxford, England and still lives in the U.K. He teaches at the University of Cambridge. That makes this paragraph from an Investor's Business Daily editorial, that has since been edited, an out-and-out lie.

Stephen Hawking, who was rushed to the hospital on Monday with a chest infection, and was said to be "very ill," is expected to make a full recovery, according to a statement issued by Cambridge University on Tuesday.

Stephen Hawking, renowned theoretical physicist, mathematician, and author of the best-seller "A Brief History of Time," has been hospitalized at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, and is said to be "very ill."

Stephen Hawking should be pleased. The first signs of an effect the British physicist predicted more than 30 years ago – known as Hawking radiation – have finally materialised from the simulated edge of a black hole.

Free of his wheelchair and tethered only to heart rate and blood pressure monitors, astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has fulfilled a dream of floating weightless on a zero-gravity jet also becoming the first disable person to experience such flight.