Dennis Overbye had a very entertaining and insightful essay in the NY
Times regarding a recent "fantasy physics" conference held, where
else, in the La-La land of LA.


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/sc...ml?ref=science


All the fashionable post-modern pseudoscientists were in attendence.


Actually, a small number are starting to lay the groundwork for their
"plausible denial" of any culpability in the pseudoscience bacchanal
that has been going on in theoretical physics for decades.


Very interesting reading!