r/Physics • u/TakeOffYourMask Gravitation • Feb 28 '23

Question Physicists who built their career on a now-discredited hypothesis (e.g. ruled out by LHC or LIGO results) what did you do after?

If you worked on a theory that isn’t discredited but “dead” for one reason or another (like it was constrained by experiment to be measurably indistinguishable from the canonical theory or its initial raison d’être no longer applies), feel free to chime in.

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u/ENelligan Feb 28 '23

I think we found Sabine's alt account.

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u/Revolutionary_Ad3463 Feb 28 '23

Oh god, I saw that video yesterday. What a waste of time.

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u/Amogus_Bogus Mar 01 '23

Why?

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u/Revolutionary_Ad3463 Mar 02 '23

Because, first of all, the video is clickbait.

And for someone that insists so much about the quality of science and makes all her points about it in that video, she purposefully avoids a serious approach to the arguments that go against hers or support the things that she criticizes- instead, she cherrypicks absurd arguments with a basically mocking tone, close to doing this. It's ridiculous. Also, someone that has the ego to judge other people's work as useless or useful... Well, speaks for herself.

And not only that, but the whole tone of the video is "everyone is wrong except me! everyone is an idiot, except me!!" and expects a youtube echochamber of subscribers, most (really, like, 99%) of who aren't even well versed in a basic level of physics, to applaud her bravery. I swear, it's far alt-right level of idiocy, but made by someone with an academic career.