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Armando, hi, I am 'the masses'. I'm here because I was called, by Sabine Herself. I assume she wants us tax-payers to help shake stuff up. 🙂

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I noticed before Greta's name makes up the same letters as "Great". However, even after reading your reply (days ago) I did not realize my mistake. Or is this an example of a "Freudian Slip"? Hmmm.

D Brown

Oh, now she's done it. Dr. Cassandra went and breached the walls of the NerdoSphere and has engaged the masses. Y'know, where all the taxpayers are. This is gonna hurt.

Armando Mistral

Sabine Hossenfelder: It seemed like an honest statement, which you are well known for. I can't be the only one who thinks a lot of science news is really someone trolling for science dollars. Like 'finding' water on a planet 100 lightyears away, but being unable to definitively determine if Mars contains the origins of life. So for me, the recent new about life on Mars is not worth a grain of salt, but is likely to rake in $billions. And don't get me started on the Higgs Boson. At the time it seemed like an award for a retiring scientist. Disclaimer: This is an opinion.

D Brown

💖💖 I earned a reply from The Great One.💖💖

D Brown

So it is a lot like our Republican senate in the US. The only one there with any balls is a woman.

D Brown

It won’t be as a result of an opinion based on evidence made available only in private. Insulting a cadre of physicists by comparing them to monkeys behind typewriters, even in the mantle of a benevolent outsider, is misguided, at best. It won’t redirect their efforts, nor is it going to reverse past grant decisions. What it will do is incite a mob who think they know better than funding agencies what science to pay for. Ultimately, all of science suffers when mistrust of scientists grows.

Rad Antonov

That headline sounded a familiar refrain, here's hoping particle physicists start to read/ listen and speak against the status quo.

I'm afraid that I was the only one you could think of... I didn't write the headline, but I guess it's true, no one else even mentions it, though it's widely known.

What pisses me off is that there are a large number of particle physicists who silently agree with Sabine, but few ever speak out in her defense.

It's blown up on Twitter, haha. It's like Sabine writes something or says something in a video, several particle physicists remember that they're mad at her then crawl out of the ants' nest to respond.

'Greta'? 'Great' works there too though. 😉

For tips, search "Great Thunberg's boat".

D Brown

Unrelated, but who do you think I immediately thought of when I saw the following article? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/26/physics-particles-physicists

D Brown

Awesome; so maybe by the time I manage to have enough wherewithal to travel overseas I won't add to my carbon footprint.