Science is Failing

There is a lot wrong with science, but the biggest bit that is wrong is that it has become less scientific, and more driven my fads, and artistic sensibilities. And it isn't working.

Hello, and welcome to another episode of "Sabine has something to complain about."

Science is failing to self-correct. The result is that for 50 years there have been no advances in the foundations of physics. The Higgs Boson was predicted in the 1960s. It was finally detected by the Large Hadron Collider in Europe 2012. Gravitational waves were predicted in the 1930s, and were detected about 19 years ago.

So why is it stuck? People have their pet theories, and are convinced the theories are true, despite the lack of evidence. The big one is known as Super Symmetry, and people are convinced that it must be true because reasons. Or they like its artistic properties.

But Sabine can explain it better than I can. The video is only about 12 minutes, but you should grab a coffee.

No, the problem is not that it’s taking so long. The problem is that physicists have tried to make progress with methods that have failed over and over again for 50 years. And they’re still doing it. They’re still using methods that don’t work and they’re still not learning from their mistakes.

This is Sabine Hessenfelder's video The crisis in physics is real: Science is failing

This isn't a new idea, and it isn't a problem confined to physics. See the archive post: “Einstein, We Have a Problem” – The problem with so much science today is it isn’t true