"Who watches the watchmen?"
We need more Sabine Hossenfelders. Too bad natural hierarchies seek to excommunicate such people.
We need more Sabine Hossenfelders. Too bad natural hierarchies seek to excommunicate such people.
There is an attraction to having “real” knowledge that everybody else is full of manure, i know some people whose small children have found conspiracy youtube and are struggling at dinner conversation over every “well actually”.
Interesting counter-mainstream ideas are important and valuable - but I don’t hear about any of them from Hossenfelder’s writing, and it’s all about how broken “the system” is. Everything I watch or read from her leaves me deeply suspicious.
Anyone from the other side could make the same argument (and they often do).
If you're trying to name a "us versus them" then there's just one big mainstream entity, the rest is fragmented. So it's not really a "red flag" because opposition is by definition not a coherent group.
If "low morale" is really the bottleneck then we aren't getting any science done anyway.
And as an aside, I don't believe in group / peer based "science". There's a few geniuses (often not credited) that define the entire thing while everyone else seems to practically be in marketing by comparison.
Science can be a group institution, but educational institutes are far from it.
Criticism and disbelief are the bedrock of Science, and calling people that don't flock to still-unproven claims "science deniers" is very dystopian. There's also entire groups of phenomena that "hard" / popular science conveniently ignores. They all fall under Science by definition, but not under science-the-religion.
A fairly serious accusation to make, which you did little to nothing to back up.