...he is an excellent spokesman and educator (much like Carl Sagan), but I'm not aware of what his accomplishments are in research, theory or even in teaching. This is not to say the man is incompetent, there are always more physicists than there are positions to be filled, and not all are able, ready or willing to toil in the fetid cutthroat political swamps of academia.
Neither do I want to come across as contemptuous of string theory, maybe there is something to it, you never know where it may lead. But so far it has not suggested too many avenues of experimental research that might be used to support or challenge it. Remember, a "good" theory isn't one that answers all the questions, it is one that poses plenty of new answerable ones.
Space/Science » in reply to LOL, you're in good company
A bit of warning about Neil...