String Theory: An Evaluation — mentioned by hitekker

Tue, 29 Dec 2020 22:30:02 GMT

The scientist saw BS, he called BS, and then 20 years later, the field he criticized turned out to be mostly BS. If you're offended by the audacity of scientists criticizing pseudoscience, you may want to read about the concept of "polemics". It's an acceptable, longstanding form of rhetoric for when a respected figure publicly disagrees with a direction of another group of people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polemic Incidentally, the author even noted his article was a polemic in the original abstract https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0102051

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String Theory: An Evaluation — mentioned by hitekker