No, that is not inflammatory. Physicists hoped to be wrong about the standard model since the first PETRA energy upgrade. Just look at this conference summary from 1981: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lss.fnal.gov&#x2F;conf&#x2F;C810824&#x2F;p1003.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lss.fnal.gov&#x2F;conf&#x2F;C810824&#x2F;p1003.pdf</a> (from lss.fnal.gov&#x2F;conf&#x2F;C810824&#x2F; )<p><i>So I predict a new revolution, or phase change, by Christmas 1982. [...] And by a second revolution, I don&#x27;t just mean already predicted Z&#x27;s and W&#x27;s, but evidence anew than Nature&#x27;s imagination is richer than ours as we cross new frontiers of the unknown.</i> (p. 1004-1005)<p>They were getting quite desperate about finding physics beyond the standard model by the mid of the decade.