notevenwrong speculations like string theory and loopgravity with little testability Shelly Glashow Nobel Prize has been quite vociferous about this Of course that does not stop Brian Greene from making millions of dollars on purely speculative ideas  pretty though they are BTW Brian who I met at State of the World Forum in  funded by Joe Firmage did borrow some cranky crackpot kooky ideas from me that he used in his NOVA PBS TV Show on The Elegant Universe For example Brian goes into a telephone booth to call ET Compare to httpstardriveorgcartoonspectrahtml  Also I introduced Jacques Vallee to Francis Ford Coppola in  when I brough Uri Geller to one of his parties Everyone was there and thats how Jacques became technical director on Close Encounters of the Third Kind