Sep 17, 2025 11:05 PM
(This post was last modified: Sep 17, 2025 11:11 PM by C C.)
SABINE HOSSENFELDER
https://youtu.be/ZO5u3V6LJuM
VIDEO EXCERPTS: He demanded that I remove my video, and when I politely declined [...] I am no longer affiliated with the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy. Germany, the land of the free thinkers. If science was a circus, they'd all be clowns by now.
Serves her right, you might say. Shouldn't have used the B-word. Fair enough. I know some people get offended by my language, though. I think that when it comes to swear words, I'm very moderate.
Come on. What the [__]. Is this the 16th century or what? I express myself this way because, for one thing, it's what I think. But more importantly, I don't want to leave you guessing what I mean.
But I can say this entirely without swear words. A lot of research and the foundations of physics is now pseudoscience. It hasn't followed the scientific method for decades.
I'm not bothered by this person's behavior or by losing my affiliation again, because thanks to you, I'm now fully financially independent, which is why I can, in contrast to many others, afford to publicly criticize academic research. But what does bother me is...
[...] They keep on producing more of these garbage papers each day, and they continue to get published, and they continue to get paid for it, and then they put out press releases. And the media picks it up, and people ask me what I think, and I say it's BS, because that's what it is. The problem is widely known among people in the field, who tend to acknowledge it privately but would never admit to it in public because their money and their reputation depends on it. Well, most of them wouldn't admit it.
One of the fearless exceptions is Will Kinney. Will works on cosmology, more specifically inflation, which is one of those highly problematic areas. Here is what he recently wrote on X-Twitter:
"There are papers on inflation on the archive almost every day, usually more than one. It's an impressively productive field, but the vast majority of those papers are model building, writing down a slightly tweaked version of a previous model and working out its consequences. There's no limit to the number of papers that can be produced this way. It's very productive. But the papers are mostly useless. Nobody, including the people writing the papers, has any realistic expectation that any of these models are correct. They're just an exercise in empty mathematical world building."
What prompted Will to write this was a book that appeared recently, "The Ant Mill" by Jesper Grimstrup, also a theoretical physicist. Let me just read you how Jesper summarized this...
RIP Free Speech ... https://youtu.be/ZO5u3V6LJuM
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/ZO5u3V6LJuM
https://youtu.be/ZO5u3V6LJuM
VIDEO EXCERPTS: He demanded that I remove my video, and when I politely declined [...] I am no longer affiliated with the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy. Germany, the land of the free thinkers. If science was a circus, they'd all be clowns by now.
Serves her right, you might say. Shouldn't have used the B-word. Fair enough. I know some people get offended by my language, though. I think that when it comes to swear words, I'm very moderate.
Come on. What the [__]. Is this the 16th century or what? I express myself this way because, for one thing, it's what I think. But more importantly, I don't want to leave you guessing what I mean.
But I can say this entirely without swear words. A lot of research and the foundations of physics is now pseudoscience. It hasn't followed the scientific method for decades.
I'm not bothered by this person's behavior or by losing my affiliation again, because thanks to you, I'm now fully financially independent, which is why I can, in contrast to many others, afford to publicly criticize academic research. But what does bother me is...
[...] They keep on producing more of these garbage papers each day, and they continue to get published, and they continue to get paid for it, and then they put out press releases. And the media picks it up, and people ask me what I think, and I say it's BS, because that's what it is. The problem is widely known among people in the field, who tend to acknowledge it privately but would never admit to it in public because their money and their reputation depends on it. Well, most of them wouldn't admit it.
One of the fearless exceptions is Will Kinney. Will works on cosmology, more specifically inflation, which is one of those highly problematic areas. Here is what he recently wrote on X-Twitter:
"There are papers on inflation on the archive almost every day, usually more than one. It's an impressively productive field, but the vast majority of those papers are model building, writing down a slightly tweaked version of a previous model and working out its consequences. There's no limit to the number of papers that can be produced this way. It's very productive. But the papers are mostly useless. Nobody, including the people writing the papers, has any realistic expectation that any of these models are correct. They're just an exercise in empty mathematical world building."
What prompted Will to write this was a book that appeared recently, "The Ant Mill" by Jesper Grimstrup, also a theoretical physicist. Let me just read you how Jesper summarized this...
RIP Free Speech ... https://youtu.be/ZO5u3V6LJuM