Sabine Hossenfelder is always worth listening to and she is more often right than wrong.
I suspect there are many more areas of current “research” which are utter rubbish but continue because the authorities are duped into providing funding.
There is nothing wrong with a good healthy rant from time to time. Especially if one is right! This is a wonderful rant about two research areas which are utter nonsense but have been fooling the funders for 40 years.
Related:
Science needs its Gods and religion is just politics
Click to access science-needs-its-gods.pdf
Physics theories are remarkably similar to God theories
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