In a funnier aside to the article if you click on the links to see which authors of Hawking's paper are endorsers to the arXiv it says Hawking isn't one .. huh.

arXiv claims that people who are known active researchers are given endorsement automatically smile

There are plenty of complaints about the way the arXiv system works and this has just given them a clear example of all that is wrong.

I believe in "Evil, Bad, Ungodly fantasy science and maths", so I am undoubtedly wrong to you.