What Peter Woit thinks about metascience

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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. 27 Oct 2026, 00:12 UTC

   Our readingThe literature may be getting overwhelmed by papers generated by AI.

   Their wordsOn a different hep-th/AI topic, I don’t see how the literature doesn’t get overwhelmed (or maybe already has been…) by papers generated like this.

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