“The Admiral of the String Theory Wars”

This relatively short article offers an interesting window into the human side of theoretical physics — there is one, you know — and, along the way, demonstrates both that fierce controversies aren’t unknown in scholarly circles and that I may actually not be the nastiest, most contentious, and most personally insulting person in American academia:

http://nautil.us/issue/24/error/the-admiral-of-the-string-theory-wars

Peter Woit himself comments on the article here:

http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/