Brian Greene so very likeable and such a brilliant communicator....and yet his endless promotion of string theory has led<br>science on a path that leads nowhere.   Even he admits that it can't honestly be called a "theory".   He is also wrong to<br>somehow equivocate his work on string theory to the work of Einstein; implying that Einstein had a long and winding<br>path to Special and General Relativity.   In fact Einstein made specific experimental predictions concerning his<br>theories and the experiments were done in a very few years completely confirming his work.  Peter Woit and Sabine  Hossenfelder<br>have never attacked him personally ,  but they are doing what scientist must do:   they ask for actual evidence in the face<br>of extraordinary claims.   And as Peter has repeatedly pointed out,   string theory has virtually had a strangle-hold on university<br>funding for theoretical physics.  An entire generation of young physicists have been told "do string theory or go home".