What Peter Woit thinks about economists

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Mathematician and Senior Lecturer in the Mathematics department at Columbia University. Author of the book Not Even Wrong and of the long-running physics blog of the same name.

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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Peter Woit has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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1. 26 Aug 2026

   Our readingCumrun Vafa's 'dark dimension' torsion balance experiment does not amount to a genuine testable prediction of string theory.

   physics

   Their wordsThis is complete nonsense, a shame that The Economist has been taken in by it.

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