[samuell]

> "The crisis, as Ellis and Silk tell it, is the wildly speculative nature of modern physics theories, which they say reflects a dangerous departure from the scientific method."

Well, there are other areas of Science that have similar or even worse problems with speculative nature and departure from the scientific method. Read "Goo-to-you evolution". Not much "repeatable, observable experimentation" there.

If only Biologists were as honest and honed in consistent, rational and logical thinking as physicists.

I'm prone to think the historically more mathematical nature of the physics discipline plays a role here.