Cargo cult science (1974)
Sabine Hossenfelder basically posted a rant about particle physicists on Youtube last week, about how they are doing science wrong.<p>Basically she said you are supposed to change your theory based upon results that don&#x27;t match the theory, and what they have been doing for decades is looking at gaps in the results, and imagining particle theories that don&#x27;t alter the expected results in the currently explored energy levels, just in the unexplored ones. Then when people get funding to look into these frontiers&#x2F;gaps, and find that everything looks the same, they adjust their theories to push them out into the gaps.<p>That&#x27;s not Science, she emphatically states.<p>For myself it sounds like saying, &quot;well you don&#x27;t know Unicorns don&#x27;t exist because we haven&#x27;t looked everywhere, what if they&#x27;re in &lt;unexplored forests in the Congo&gt;?&quot; Then the Congo gets explored and they say, &quot;well maybe they&#x27;re in Antarctica&quot;.