[mannykannot]

People who dare to dream out loud about interesting unsolved riddles in the universe are fine, but all too often in these articles, what we get is an unjustified claim that the riddle has been solved (or that a whole class of possible answers are ruled out), resting on little but straw-man arguments, appeals to intuition dressed up as objective facts, and attempts to rule issues out of consideration by definition, through wordplay. This is not the way to a true understanding. Of the authors I have read on the subject, Scott Aaronson stands out as someone who tries to (and succeeds in) avoiding this form of argumentation.