Quantum Gravity and Experimental Data: Lee Smolin in Physics Today"

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"Quantum gravity faces reality
String theory is only one of many approaches to quantizing general relativity. Increasingly, all those approaches will be judged by how well they accord with experimental data."

Lee Smolin
November 2006, page 44
http://www.physicstoday.org/

The full text can be found at http://www.physicstoday.org/vol-59/iss-11/p44.shtml but requires membership for access. Alas, I can reveal that the content will surprise nobody.
 
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http://www.physicstoday.org/vol-59/iss-11/pdf/vol59no11p44_48.pdf

when I tried this, it did not require me to be a subscriber but gave free access

perhaps Physics Today has changed the status of the article
 
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