Will Kinney: "Physics is a scam: no matter what observation we make, somebody can come up with a model to fit it." https://twitter.com/WKCosmo/status/1564957148764934146

Will Kinney frightened by the reaction: "Way too many people are taking this tweet seriously." https://twitter.com/WKCosmo/status/1565035614050844672

Sabine Hossenfelder specifies that *fundamental* physics is a scam: "Because that's exactly the problem with most of the foundations of physics today..." https://twitter.com/skdh/status/1565232715565334528

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Ethan Siegel: "Scientific Theories Never Die, Not Unless Scientists Choose To Let Them. When it comes to science, we like to think that we formulate hypotheses, test them, throw away the ones that fail to match, and continue testing the successful one until only the best ideas are left. But the truth is a lot muddier than that. The actual process of science involves tweaking your initial hypothesis over and over, trying to pull it in line with what we already know. [...] By the addition of enough extra free parameters, caveats, behaviors, or modifications to your theory, you can literally salvage any idea. As long as you're willing to tweak what you've come up with sufficiently, you can never rule anything out." https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2017/11/16/scientific-theories-never-die-not-unless-scientists-choose-to-let-them/

Sabine Hossenfelder (Bee): "The criticism you raise that there are lots of speculative models that have no known relevance for the description of nature has very little to do with string theory but is a general disease of the research area. Lots of theorists produce lots of models that have no chance of ever being tested or ruled out because that's how they earn a living. The smaller the probability of the model being ruled out in their lifetime, the better. It's basic economics. Survival of the 'fittest' resulting in the natural selection of invincible models that can forever be amended." http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=9375

Theoretical physics is a scam, isn't it?

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Pentcho Valev wrote:

> Will Kinney: "Physics is a scam: no matter what observation we make,
> somebody can come up with a model to fit it."

sure, meant theories, not models. Here's another proof, that in capitalism
"free_market" is when they profit and you lose. They bought gas and oil
from the Russian People on *_fake_money_* and *_fake_funny_money_* along
the decades and centuries now, with arrogance and disrespect, then now

EU threatened with complete halt of Russian gas supplies
https://www.rt.com/news/562070-russian-top-official-no-gas-europe/

Former President Dmitry Medvedev’s comment came after the European
Commission President proposed a gas-price cap

these arrogant capitalist wankers are setting the price they liked to pay
on products of other countries. This is how slavery works. Tell them feel
it's capitalism and make them hate Marxism, so they never read it, as it's
about their kids and family interest.