The point is that a theory is only scientific it if it's falsifiable. That is, it makes a prediction, you go into the lab and do an experiment, and if the exper

The point is that a theory is only scientific it if it's falsifiable. That is, it makes a prediction, you go into the lab and do an experiment, and if the experiment comes out differently than the prediction, you know the theory was wrong. The author and I got the impression that string "theory" (let's call it "string hypothesis" instead?) has so many degrees of freedom that it can predict basically anything you throw at it, even things we now know aren't physical, so its predictive value is zero.