And for once I almost agree with you Bill
Personally I like to consider all options but then there a experimental results which rule things in and out.
As I said I don't think LM gets everything right but his understanding is lets just say a hell of a lot better than Ethan's. What I will say is at least LM got the basics facts and experiment results right.
You like your consensus in science well it's definitely closer to LM's than Ethan but cooler on the string's. Ethan's article could have been written in the seventies that is how out of date it is. There were a few comments that the founder of Asymptotic safe gravity Steven Weiberg conceded the idea was dead but I have not personally seen it, last I knew he was still beating it up and if I get time I will follow that up.
As I said it was just a really bad article I was expecting Matt Strassler to raise a few eyebrow's over it as well.
