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'''The Only Game in Town''' ('''TOGIT''') is a term used by Eric Weinstein to describe a recurring institutional and rhetorical posture in which a certain approaches, particularly String Theory, represent the sole viable path in theoretical physics. This approach is treated as uniquely legitimate, unavoidable, and fundable. TOGIT detrimentally affects publication, funding, discourse, and epistemic legitimacy of alternative approaches. | |||
While the phrase itself originates with remarks by physicist David Gross in the late 1980s, the analytic framing, sociological critique, and set of distinctions collected under the name TOGIT are articulated by Weinstein. | |||
== Origin of the expression == | |||
The phrase ''“the only game in town”'' is known, in the physics context, from remarks attributed to David Gross in the late 1980s, where he described a dominant unification program in fundamental physics as lacking alternatives. | |||
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