@clacke It is mostly an evisceration of string theory and the theorists that work on it. I don't disagree with some of his points - for instance, how funding is distributed among theoretical efforts - but it is also a bit dated now. Theorists move with the fashions - in a scientific sense, where the data lead - and today the Higgs Boson and its implications for near-term physics is all the rage... As it should be, because it exists.