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'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'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/gaps, and find that everything looks the same, they adjust their theories to push them out into the gaps.<p>That's not Science, she emphatically states.<p>For myself it sounds like saying, "well you don't know Unicorns don't exist because we haven't looked everywhere, what if they're in <unexplored forests in the Congo>?" Then the Congo gets explored and they say, "well maybe they're in Antarctica".