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"string theory lied to us and now science communication is hard" (www.youtube.com)

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Dr. Angela Collier plays the Binding of Isaac: Rebirth and talks at length about what went wrong with string theory, and how that affected science communication.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, I meant the field of string theory and the leadng scientists she mentioned.

She only mentions Brian Greene and then lumps every single other string physicist in with him.

And calling her rant dumb seems like you are dismissing her argument without actually thinking about it.

I'm calling it dumb because I listened to the whole thing, thought about it, and assessed it to be dumb.

You don't need half an hour to say "Brian Greene is a dingus who overrepresented his confidence in string theory to sell books", and that was the only legitimate point she actually made.

Yeah, people are distrustful of science in America, but to blame that all on string theory is absurd. Nothing about her argument is backed up by anything remotely resembling sociological research on trust in science, she just complains that people didn't want to spend 200B dollars on a particle accelerator and blames string theory cause she heard one crackpot mention it one time.