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|content=Note Added: The tweet quoted is not coming up for everyone. Perhaps because it is mid thread?
 
Just look for the A) - Z) section of different framings that are seldom discussed well beyond the issue of which is the best theoretical attempt at [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity]]. Thanks.
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|content=Some of you have asked me why I am specifically focused on how [[String Theory]] *may* have permanently deranged modern theory in High Energy Physics.
 
In the midst of a thread with Prof. @JosephPConlon, author of “Why String Theory?” I set out the dangers of allowing string theorists to be the arbiters judges and juries of what is important in physics.
 
Simply put, they mis-framed almost everything to explain the last 40 inexplicable years of string induced monoculture and stagnation in moving beyond the [[Standard Model]] and [[General Relativity]]. The question is now: “Can more healthy physics research culture survive and come back from the String Failure?”
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|content=The problem I have is with string theorists framing of the field and its issues and questions. I think [[String Theory]] is dangerous for this reason.
 
Try these instead:
 
A) Which approach is most likely to successfully alter or explain the [[Standard Model|Standard model]]?
 
B) Same as A) but for [[General Relativity]]?
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|content=Who turned out to be right?
 
Everyone who said “Wait: why are we changing the core mission to ‘Quantizing Gravity’?? Weren’t we supposed to explain the observed particle spectrum? And the weirdness of the Higgs sector as Deus Ex Machina? And the origin of chirality? Etc etc.”
 
Feynman/Glashow/Perl/Etc.
 
It was a total switcheroo.
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|content=Some have been making this point for 39 years. We are not now “At a point where we really ought to question
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We were there in 1984. And I was not alone at the time. There were *many* of us. Before this [[String Theory]]/ [[Quantum Gravity]] mind virus took over.
 
I don’t know what to call the behavior pattern where institutions look to someone who has *NOT* been making the important point for forever so they don’t have to deal with the fact that they got EVERYTHING WRONG for 4-7 decades in an obvious fashion.
 
You have to ask yourself “Who are the real cranks when those accused of being cranks turn out to be right?” And the leaders who accused them turn out to be wrong. Over and over. Again. And again.
 
Glad to have the company however.
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|content=“We’re at a point where we really ought to question whether this drive and this challenge to quantize gravity was really the right thing to do.” https://youtube.com/watch?v=DkRbNXILroI
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|content=I don’t even know where to start.
Who exactly turned out to be right? About what?
 
You want to be taken seriously, yet the reason people disagree with you is a ‘mind virus’?
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|content=Sorry. By whom? Do I expect to be taken seriously by the many String Theorists who called their colleagues morons, frauds and “not serious” behind their backs? No. I don’t.
 
I expect them to leave the field. Then we can get back to doing physics. The subset of reasonable string theorists who know this problem well and are still doing science? Well
.They know ST/QG has a problem and they hate it too. And I do care about them.
 
That isn’t a mind virus. The mind virus is specifically the tortured defense of [[String Theory|string theory]] and [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity]] by attacking colleagues without admitting its massive failure. And that is a mind virus. I stand by that. It’s atrocious.
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|content=I don’t get this at all. Dark matter is not sketchy. Neutrinos as extremely light electrically neutral leptons are *almost* dark.
 
People ask me what I hate about [[String Theory]] and [[Quantum Gravity]] culture. It is this. The endless ST/QG propaganda and smearing of critics makes it look like  Dark Matter, Grand Unified Theory, Supersymmetry, Dark Energy, extra dimensions, etc. are all part of a Bullshit offensive of speculative nonsense.
 
I have been extremely harsh because this culture has left an impression with non-researchers that all of high energy particle physics theory  is ‘sketch’. Bullshit. One tiny group of people with an unusual scientific ethics of both overselling unsuccessful ideas and bad mouthing rival colleagues doesn’t have the right to destroy the credibility of this amazing community.
 
Even Supersymmetry and [[String Theory]] aren’t Sketch
Let alone dark matter and dark energy. And I am among the longest standing public critics wiling to say that [[String Theory|string theory]] and [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity]] are totally failing as solid physics programs.
 
MORAL: Sketchy culture leave the impression that the science is sketchy. NO!! It’s the *culture* not the *theory* that is ‘sketch’. That is why we need to call out the unethical behavior that is undermining support and understanding of fundamental physics.
 
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|content=Possibly.
 
Dark matter is what seems most sketch to me.
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