Science and everything else humans do is social and cliquey.
There's nothing that brings a group with some power over others together more than being able to agree that someone outside the group should be sidelined or punished.
There's nothing that brings a group with some power over others together more than being able to agree that someone outside the group should be sidelined or punished.
So saying “well everyone can poo-poo everyone else not in their field” is still true of course, but I think her specific critiques of particle physics are biting (and provoke responses) because her experience allows those critiques to be more accurate and more trenchant.