Luboš Motl has several responses to this question on his blog: http://motls.blogspot.com/2005/06/why-no-new-einstein.html http://motls.blogspot.com/2005/06/why

Luboš Motl has several responses to this question on his blog: http://motls.blogspot.com/2005/06/why-no-new-einstein.html http://motls.blogspot.com/2005/06/why-no-new-einstein.html http://motls.blogspot.com/2005/09/why-no-new-einstein-ii.html http://motls.blogspot.com/2005/09/why-no-new-einstein-ii.htm... This one isn't directly addressed to the Smolin piece, but it addresses the "No New Einstein" question: http://motls.blogspot.com/2007/09/bad-physicists-and-populism.html http://motls.blogspot.com/2007/09/bad-physicists-and-populis...