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The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design

Leonard Susskind · 2005

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Peter Woit disliked it
That book struck me as embodying the worst aspects of where string theory has ended up, promoting to the public in a high-profile way a dangerously pseudo-scientific excuse for string theory's failure.

on math.columbia.edu · 24 Jan 2013

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