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Woit's language is usually so measured it's actually shocking to see him straight up call someone 'embarrassingly incompetent'

As someone who goes against the tide, they have to be careful regardless. You certainly don't see the same restraint from string theorists.

Unfortunately as a lay-person I think that modern physics has grown to complicated that I have no basis for really judging who is right or wrong in an argument like this. Wolf's article seems more persuasive, but that doesn't mean that he's right.

Internal realities are all valid. People who insist of making their internal reality everyone else's external reality (to the limit of understanding) are judgemental. It's a paradox.

I actually think it was bordering on generous to the Quantum article, and I'm not sure that in a similar position I would have been satisfied with only restrained mockery.

Non-physicist here.

Woit makes very negative comments about Cole, but my impression was he has the same basic view about the status of string theory as the one expressed in the article. Could someone explain how they are different?