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Sunday, January 17, 2010

A quote on string theorists

It's rare for a scientist---even a string theorist, beholden neither to instruments nor to data--to submit 7 articles in an entire year, let alone one month.

David Kaiser's review of Plastic Fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World by Eugenie Samuel Reich in American Scientist, Nov.--Dec. 2009,

On the book: I haven't read the book (only this review) but this quote summarizes a large part of physics today.

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