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Not according to Matt Strassler.

In the new post on his blog he discusses why the LHC has not ruled out String Theory. Basically right now the LHC can't test any predictions that String Theory makes, because it would require much more energy than LHC will ever have to test predictions that can be made from String Theory. He points out that even if String Theory is wrong it is still very useful as a tool in other areas of physics.

Bill Gill

Well he has been at the quantum gravity conference and probably didn't want them throwing fruit at him.

His report of that was funny

http://profmattstrassler.com/2013/09/16/a-quantum-gravity-cosmology-conference/

Compare that to Lubos who threw a few grenades at them including the odd Nobel Laureate, he did stop short of calling them mentally handicapped ... just!!!!

http://motls.blogspot.com.au/2013/09/string-theory-is-complete-theory-of.html

IMO, Strassler writes clearly and readably; while Motl's style I find verbose, confusing and, after a few minutes of reading, quite irritating. I think this is a shame as I suspect he has some interesting things to say.

I agree Bill S, Lubos is more often correct and more precise and accurate than Matt but his caustic nature makes that hard to work thru. What I really appreciate from Lubos is his mathematics because he has the uncanny knack of being able to write a physical problem into black and white mathematics but I suspect that is what string theorists do