Saddened but retrospectively unsurprised to hear that physics, too, has succumbed to the disease that destroys science — the one that has already crippled psychology, human nutrition and medicine, and social science:https://www.econtalk.org/sabine-hossenfelder-on-physics-reality-and-lost-in-math/ …
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By way of contrast, it's pretty obvious some huge things people could do in, say, social psych, & immediately get much, much better results. In fundamental physics, it's easy to point to social problems, but those aside: there's no obvious way of making progress.
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Put another way: improve the social processes in social psych => way better science, immediately; improve the social processes in fundamental physics => no idea if anything changes at all. I hope it would.
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