> Those physicists who said otherwise were either incompetent or lying or both, the rest knew it but kept their mouth shut, and now they hope you’ll forget about this and give them money for a bigger collider.

This, coming from a physicist, shows how corrupt aademic physics has become. Academic physics is nothing more than old school scholasticism.

> Particle physics has degenerated into a paper production enterprise that is of virtually no relevance for societal progress or for progress in any other discipline of science.

Another sign of scholasticism. You just write commentary on commentary to earn academic points.

> They never admitted to having made false statements, accidentally or deliberately, and they never gave us any reason to think it wouldn’t happen again. I quite simply don’t trust them.