PhD student in theoretical physics here. I will confirm: Weinstein is a charlatan, and all of us know it. As far as I can tell, the only people who believe in him are non-physicists who consume exclusively pop science. In other words, he's acting as the literal definition of a dishonest public intellectual.
It's just sad, and it really shows the yawning chasm between verbal fluency and real expertise.
It's just sad, and it really shows the yawning chasm between verbal fluency and real expertise.