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String Theory Does Not Win a Nobel, and I Win a Bet

The Delusion of Scientific Omniscience


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Pluralism: Beyond the One and Only Truth

The Twilight of Science's High Priests

How Physics Lost Its Way

How Physics Lost Its Fizz

The Rise of Neo-Geocentrism

Why There Will Never Be Another Einstein

Is the Gravitational-Wave Claim True? And Was It Worth the Cost?

Why I Still Doubt Inflation, in Spite of Gravitational Wave Findings

Is a Popular Theory of Cosmic Creation Pseudoscience?

Science Will Never Explain Why There's Something Rather Than Nothing

Is Cosmos a “Piece of Light Verse” Tossed Off by a Bored God?

Is speculation in multiverses as immoral as speculation in subprime mortgages?

Cosmic Clowning: Stephen Hawking’s “new” theory of everything is the same old CRAP

"John Horgan Carrying Stephen Hawking in His Arms." A Poem

In Physics, Telling Cranks from Experts Ain't Easy

Does the "Goddamn" Higgs Particle Portend the End of Physics?

If You Want More Higgs Hype, Don't Read This Column

Could Nobel Prize for “God Particle” Be Last Gasp for Particle Physics?

Is Lawrence Krauss a Physicist, or Just a Bad Philosopher?

Science "faction": Is theoretical physics becoming "softer" than anthropology?

Did Edgar Allan Poe Foresee Modern Physics and Cosmology?

'Theory of Everything' (the film) Brilliantly Dramatizes Paradox of Modern Science

Is David Deutsch's Vision of Endless Understanding Delusional?

World's Smartest Physicist Thinks Science Can't Crack Consciousness

Is Scientific Materialism "Almost Certainly False"?

Why Information Can’t Be the Basis of Reality

Bayes's Theorem: What's the Big Deal?

Einstein, "The Anxiety of Influence" and "The End of Science"

Einstein and Science's Assault on Common Sense

Facing the End of Science

Is Science Infinite?

Was I Wrong about ‘The End of Science’?

What Is “Ironic Science”?

Did My Daughter Solve Riddle Posed by Cosmic Theorist Andrei Linde?

Q&As with Physicists, Philosophers of Physics and Jim Holt

Scott AaronsonDavid AlbertDavid DeutschGeorge EllisMarcelo GleiserNick HerbertJim HoltSabine HossenfelderStuart Kauffman,  Garrett Lisi,  Tim Maudlin,  Priyamvada Natarajan,  Martin ReesCarlo Rovelli,  Peter ShorLee Smolin,  Paul Steinhardt,  Steven Weinberg,  Edward WittenPeter Woit and Stephen Wolfram.

Profiles of Physicists

My Encounter with the Late Mitchell Feigenbaum, Chaos Pioneer and Critic

My Alarming, Inspiring Encounter with the Late Stephen Hawking

David Bohm, Quantum Mechanics and Enlightenment

Do Our Questions Create the World? Profile of John Wheeler

Profile of Cosmic Trickster and Inflation Pioneer Andrei Linde

Profile of Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg

Quark Inventor Murray Gell-Mann Doubts Science Will Discover “Something Else

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