I want to read you an email that I was asked to keep confidential I've been thinking about this for a long time but I now believe that reading it to you will go some way to explain why I'm worried about the status of scientific research generally but especially in the foundations of physics I received this email about 7 years ago after I published a comment in nature physics titled science needs reason to be trusted in it I explained how I lost trust in scientific self-correction after I realized how much of what's published in the foundations
of physics is nonsense and continues to be nonsense this email came from someone who I've met a few times but don't know in any depth and who at the time worked at a top institution in the United States to honor the request of confidentiality I've removed some details hi zabina I'm if you remember me I'm not using my work email the topic is a bit delic and I hope that our conversation will remain confidential I'm contacting you regarding your recent paper in nature which made a lot of noise first of all congratulations on a nice
paper if you wanted to attract attention you managed to do this actually I'd like to ask you next time think not only about short-term personal benefits but about the community in general you understand what consequences your publication might bring for our community what are all these BSM model Builders with exaggerated self-opinion going to do afterwards what about experimentalists who survive hiding inside big multi-v collaborations can you offer them all any decent employment Alternatives some of them have families and young children some of them are already too old to get employment elsewhere for some of them
Academia is the only way to get US Visa if you like yes what we created is a bubble but it has helps thousands of those guys and their families not to die from Hunger we all do the same stuff and have some trade secrets for example I'm one of the authors of the so-called model pretty useless stuff old refurbished with a couple of new blows and whistles but if people buy this and it helps them to get grants who cares for people who pay us all we do is just noise they have zero idea that
Elementary particles exist they pay us from public funds not from their own and basically pay for something cool some new crazy hype which they need either to include into their sence spending reports or in case of universities to attract students your paper made a lot of noise and most likely will affect redistribution of Hep funds towards other areas but I doubt that you'll be able to suggest and Implement any organizational changes also any changes of quality criteria which would demonstrate uselessness of somebody's work will have zero chance of approval I understand that all what I
wrote above might sound a bit harsh sorry for this but this is how our society is built and this is not only a problem in the Hep Community but also exists in all other areas my heart is bleeding when I regularly see brightened intelligent persons with independent ways of thinking leaving Academia or getting kicked out whereas obedient idiots remain but there's nothing can do those who get kicked out usually find better opportunities outside of Academia those who remain in Academia accept the rules and enjoy the comfort of academic life of course sometimes there are exceptions
like string theorists smolen and white but I doubt you'd like to share their Destiny I'm reading this to you as an illustration a rare example of somebody else's honest words I can't prove Pro to you that this email is real so you'll have to take my word for it in contrast to the person who sent this email I don't think that taxpayers are stupid we're not paying physicists for crazy new hype we want to see results and soon taxpayers will start asking some tough questions an example so they told you that this Dune experiment that's
being built from some billions dollars of public funds at firb will tell us why we exist exist or why the universe didn't disappear I regret to inform you that it won't do any such thing regardless of what the result of the Dune experiment will be it'll not tell us why the universe contains more matter than antimatter because this question is impossible to answer within the context of our current theories the matter antimatter symmetry that Dune is supposedly shedding light on is a pseudo problem it's a story that physicists have made up that they're now selling
to the public because they think that once they have the money it doesn't really matter if they deliver what they promised though to be fair I think that some of them are honestly confused about what CP violation in the nutrius sector even says about antimatter what will the experiment do it'll measure some properties of neutrinos what's that good for is good for keeping particle physicists employed because some of them have families and it it be unfair if they had to do something useful for their income wouldn't it and has anyone even noticed that the US
government spent another 2 billion dollars or so on a new particle collider at Brook Haven its purpose is to improve measurements of the quark and glue and distribution inside of heavy irons what they good for you're not supposed to ask you're supposed to believe that you're too stupid to understand what it's good for but let me fill you in it's good for keeping particle physicists employed meanwhile the Chinese are laughing their asses off that you think it makes your country worth defending that particle physicists have created these bubbles of useless research is not a problem
that can be fixed from inside the community the only way to fix the problem is to stop paying them I'm afraid that this is exactly what's going to happen I didn't want this to happen this is why I wrote my 2017 comment but at this point it's too late for them to change anything about it I've read this email dozens of times and each time I'm stunned by how condescending it is to all the people who do honest work and whose taxes pay for academic jobs it makes me sick and it makes me glad that
I no longer have anything to do with this so-called research area that's rotten to the core if you are one of the many physicists who know full well what nonsense research I'm talking about but you still keep your mouth shut if you're one of those who laugh about me because No One Believes what I'm saying if you're one of those who spread lies about me like that story that I was invited to give a talk at CERN but was afraid to go did you make that up I hope it was amusing but Jesus use your
brain your problem isn't that I'm making noise your problem is that you're lying to the people who who pay you your problem is that you're cowards without a shred of scientific Integrity your problem is that every bubble eventually bursts by the way the reason I now call it nonsense research and no longer research is that YouTube flexs the letter as profanity and we don't want to be profane on this channel that would be ABS lutely terrible all right let me know what you think about all this in the comments there are many reasons why you
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