John Horgan is more or less pessimistic about where much of theoretical physics is headed these days. See here for the story.
HT: Doug Groothuis.
BTW, I'd agree with Groothuis' letter to the editor. I'd add it seems a bit ironic that Horgan finds information theory intriguing at the same time as he disdains and dismisses ID out of hand given that it would seem specified complexity makes use of information theory at least in part (e.g. see here). But perhaps I misunderstand information theory, specified complexity, and/or the relationship between the two.
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