"The crisis in physics is real: Science is failing" by Sabine Hossenfelder

[Lucasxp64]

 

[Lucasxp64]

Summarizing: She says that physicists have been doing research in dumb ways that don't work because of rampant institutional corruption and group-think. Epistemologically lobotomized.

[Hojo]

Scientists are lying to keep a job and their own sanity.

[Leo Gura]

What's this? The myth of science?

[Raze]

I believe academia is going to fall apart, someone needs to try and create a new one.

[diegogomez42]

Science does not exist until we realize it in direct awareness. And then the resolution changes depending on a whole range of factors. Or is this post not specific enough? Because you can substitute science for any other object and the same is true in relation to what i wrote? 

[Husseinisdoingfine]

The innocent days of Newton and Einstein are long gone.

[lostingenosmaze]

And of course Professor Dave immediately nuthugs and defends the institutions:

 

[Sea]

I think these complaints come from people having a higher expectation for academic research jobs than they do for industry jobs. As if academia is supposed to be some "pure" pursuit of knowledge.

It sounds like academia has bullshit just like any other job. Scientists act like salespeople with their research proposals? Okay, the corporate world is all about sales as well. Aside from actual salespeople, anyone working in industry who has an idea will have to convince their boss/coworkers of the validity of their idea.

If scientists were allowed to research whatever they wanted without the "sales" part, people would also be complaining about research funding going to waste. So what's the alternative?

[Carl-Richard]

6 hours ago, lostingenosmaze said:

And of course Professor Dave immediately nuthugs and defends the institutions:

How is he so predictable? 

[Jodistrict]

Technically, string theory and multiverse theories aren’t science.  Because a scientific theory needs to form a hypothesis that can be refuted or validated through observation.  However, it is basically impossible to construct experiments to verify any of these theories.  The dimensions of string theory are just too small and you can’t go outside your own universe to verify another universe.  So, these theories are really mathematics or philosophy.  Apparently, string theory produces interesting mathematical results.  So it is of some value to mathematics.

As for particle physics, they are bumping up against real constraints in reality.  They keep finding new particles and don’t know if there is an underlying mechanism that explains it.  Also, super colliders are extremely expensive so is it worth spending billions of dollars to find a new particle which doesn’t really contribute to a furtherance of knowledge?   This is a complex issue but it is real and not due to corruption in the system.