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… Bryan Appleyard � Blog Archive � Physics: Superstitions and Allegories?   (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… the dangers of relying on maths are obvious. In climate science, for example, mathematical models have repeatedly proved wrong – most spectacularly in their failure to predict the pause in global warming over the last two decades. By the rigorous and effective standard of testing againts nature and falsifiability, superstring theory cannot be science.