'It saddens me to see that the field has become a factory for useless academic papers.'
Hossenfelder's case rests on several criticisms of the field, the first being social. Basically, she says, everyone is following the leader. If your peers are receiving grants in the name of far-flung, conceptual,, why would anyone opt out? Science isn't cheap, and going against the grain is by nature a far more difficult sell.
But that issue aside, the astrophysicist believes there to be a deeper problem with the race for particle discovery: that particle physicists have "misconstrued" Karl Popper's, incorrectly interpreting it to mean, as she writes, that "any falsifiable idea is also good science." In other words, many of her peers have used falsifiability to justify a heft chunk of dead end research, rather than using it as a guideline. And this, in her opinion, has led to the use and study of misinterpreted-and-or-probably-not-real particles as convenient plugs for statistical holes in a number of other theories.
"It saddens me," she added, "to see that the field has become a factory for useless academic papers."
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