PZ Myers, a biologist, gives a good reaction to some earlier news on these physicists at http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/04/26/aaargh-physici...
eg. his little diatribe on Haekel. Ok, Haekel was wrong, but the initial processes behind embryo development must still be pretty old, right? Nope, apparently, even mentioning Haekel == wrong, and your whole argument is wrong and you're stupid and should be embarrassed, etc, etc.