Luboš Motl

Luboš Motl is a Czech physicist specializing in string theory. During his active career, he was a competent scientist and an author of mathematics textbooks. Now he is mostly a raging asshole from hell.
Between 2004 and 2007, Motl was an assistant professor at Harvard University. He got the job through competence and talent, and lost it by being a raging asshole. He has not held a university position since. Motl's Wikipedia article is anodyne, but proudly lists all his arXiv submissions. He has not published a single paper there or anywhere else since 2007, when he split from Harvard. He originally got his Ph.D. scholarship because of a paper he posted on the arXiv as an undergraduate.http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/01/science/world-science-becomes-global-village-archive-opens-new-realm-research.html
In 2019, many members of the physics community decided to boycott Luboš Motl's blog.
==The Reference Frame==
His blog, The Reference Frame, consists of abuse and insults hurled at anyone he disagrees with, mostly concerning physics. He has an annoying habit of continuing to edit posts for months after making them, making citation difficult, but at least he doesn't change his stated opinions and makes the abuse and insults more refined. If you disagree or dissent from Motl's own opinion, even in the most mild and engaging manner, Motl will ban your disqus account from commenting at his site and then reply to your comments such that you're unable to rebut or engage in any kind of debate with him. He will even go so far as to post your comments to him elsewhere at his site, editing them to change their meaning and tone. PZ Myers has called Motl a "crackpot"Shakin’ the nuts (Pharyngula, 2010-07-23) (which is also Motl's favoured word for anyone who disagrees with him). It is true that Luboš is willing to embrace crackpot ideasTamino vs Goddard (The Reference Frame, 2010-05-11)Venus if you will (CapitalistImperialistPigdog, 12 May 2010)About Lapse Rates in Planetary Atmospheres (CapitalistImperialistPigdog, 14 May 2010) when it suits his politics. However, his science is generally good within his sphere of competence. The problem is his refusal to recognize that his sphere of competence is finite.
And God help you if you've ever implied anywhere that string theory is anything less than the revealed secret of the Universe, particularly if you're Lee Smolin, Peter Woit or "similar breathtakingly dishonest far-left anti-scientific subhuman activist garbage".Hep-th papers on Thursday Motl has so far failed to keep their papers entirely off the readable categories of arXiv, but not for want of effort.
===Physicists' boycott of the Reference Frame===
In 2019, after Luboš Motl's misrepresentation of work by a junior female physicist, among others, many members of the particle physics community decided to boycott Luboš Motl's blog. Below is a public statement by M.I.T. faculty member, Daniel Harlow.
===Abolishment===
In April 2022, Motl stated he 'canceled and blocked' the blog owing to 'censorship pressures'.
==Political views==
Motl defines himself as a "Christian atheist." This seems to be due more to anti-Islamic sentiment and belief in "Western values" than the religion itself.Oriana Fallaci: Force of Reason
===Feminism===
He's a not a big fan of feminism, either: 
===Racism===
Motl doesn't understand the point of Martin Luther King Day celebration. Apparently, black people had to sit in the back of the buses for entirely sensible reasons:
===Feminism, homosexuality and the Muslims===
===Climate change===
Motl is a climate change denier, having realized that "left-wing groups want to use this carbon theme as a tool for wealth redistribution."Poland rejects global carbon communism His very… distinctive comments can be found on climate change blogs all over the internet (for example, at Stoat, Deltoid, etc.)
While commenting on William M. Connolley's blog, Motl wrote:http://web.archive.org/web/20120509034224/http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2007/08/fun_from_a_czech_physicist_and.php#comment-551686
In a later comment, Motl clarified:
Connolley responded with:
Skeptical Science has extensively attacked Motl's "arguments".https://skepticalscience.com/motley-cruel.html
===On race and picnics===
There was a picnic on Harvard Quad's lawn, with 60 students, primarily black. Police were called in to check their IDs. Motl reacted thus:
==On his own greatness==
Motl is smart, though not nearly as smart as he thinks he is. (It's impossible for anyone to be as smart as Motl thinks he is.) This means everyone who disagrees with him is stupid, probably to the point of criminal negligence:
==External links==
*The Reference Frame - bring your own hazmat suit.
*SkepticalScience on Motl
*Noisy picnic and political correctness
*Science and Democracy
==References==
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