
Michael Peskin
American theoretical physicistWikipedia
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Oct 20, 2026
Further Exposing Sabine Hossenfelder With Six Physicists
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67:03Dave FarinaHOST
Now we are going to move on to a highly accomplished theoretical physicist.
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67:07Dave FarinaHOST
Michael Peskin has been a professor at Stanford University for decades, working at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
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67:15Dave FarinaHOST
He is also a co-author of the single most widely used graduate textbook on quantum field theory.
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67:20Dave FarinaHOST
You'll be hard pressed to find almost anyone better qualified to discuss the status of theoretical physics than Michael,
2 HRS 17 MINS LATER
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204:18Dave FarinaHOST
You don't give two shits about physics.
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204:20Dave FarinaHOST
You only care about the anti-establishment narrative that makes you feel smart and special.
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204:26Dave FarinaHOST
Once again, by any metric imaginable, at the absolute least, Michael Peskin and Nick Warner are dramatically more accomplished, more knowledgeable, more influential, and more relevant to the progress of physics than Sabina.
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204:41Dave FarinaHOST
Although I would wholeheartedly argue that this is the case for all six of them.