Hmm, I may give you that one. :-) Although I could split hairs and point out that at the time he made that statement he was no longer an advocate of string theory and instead was championing a competitor to string theory (loop quantum gravity).
And when Smolin released that book it was roundly attacked by the advocates of string theory for its claims of string theory being unfalsifiable.
http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/all-strung-out
So, of course, the generalization in the article is still blatantly false, but touche on sort of answering my challenge. :-)
“But is string theory true? Peter Woit, a mathematician at Columbia University, has challenged the entire string-theory discipline by proclaiming that its topic is not a genuine theory at all and that many of its exponents do not understand the complex mathematics it employs. String theory, he avers, has become a form of science fiction. Hence his book’s title, Not Even Wrong: an epithet created by Wolfgang Pauli, an irascible early 20th-century German physicist. Pauli had three escalating levels of insult for colleagues he deemed to be talking nonsense: “Wrong!”, “Completely wrong!” and finally “Not even wrong!”. By which he meant that a proposal was so completely outside the scientific ballpark as not to merit the least consideration.”
And it would seem that Peter Voit is not alone:
“Woit’s book, highly readable, accessible and powerfully persuasive, is designed to give a short history of recent particle and theoretical physics. Ultimately he seeks not only to rattle but to dismantle the cage of the string theorists. What gives the book its searingly provocative edge, moreover, is the fact that Woit isn’t even a tenured professor, but a mere mathematics instructor specialising in computer systems. Yet he has formidable allies such as David Gross (the Nobel Llaureate theoretical physicist), Roger Penrose (the world-class mathematician) and Lee Smolin (the leading cosmologist), plus an accumulating constituency of other big-name supporters. Woit has taken on a group of the smartest minds in the world and told them that their intellectually imperial pretensions are naked. He has boldly published what many have thought but never dared to express so cogently, or at such length.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article672464.ece
Sure, he's not a string advocate, but it definitely seems there is a backlash brewing in the scientific community against the non-testable monster that string theory has apparently become.