&gt; &quot;The crisis, as Ellis and Silk tell it, is the wildly speculative nature of modern physics theories, which they say reflects a dangerous departure from the scientific method.&quot;<p>Well, there are other areas of Science that have similar or even worse problems with speculative nature and departure from the scientific method. Read &quot;Goo-to-you evolution&quot;. Not much &quot;repeatable, observable experimentation&quot; there.<p>If only Biologists were as honest and honed in consistent, rational and logical thinking as physicists.<p>I&#x27;m prone to think the historically more mathematical nature of the physics discipline plays a role here.