Fringe Movement Claims the Entirety of Modern Physics Is Wrong

"But the wonders of the internet has brought an entire economy built on outrage and conspiracy theories, enabling even the most crackpot grifters and fringe scientists to reach a wide audience and easily make a quick buck. We've all heard them rage against vaccines and seed oils, but one of their buzziest claims lately might surprise you: that theoretical physics are all lying to us, the Wall Street Journal "

"Allegedly, theoretical physicists are corrupt and collude with each other to uphold groupthink. The lack of world - changing discoveries in recent decades, or a framework that reconciles quantum mechanics and classical physics, evinces an academic establishment that's become enfeebled by its unwillingness to allow room for disagreement or to entertain more radical ideas. It's true that physics has become increasingly fixated on riddle-like ideas about string theory and invisible dark matter, and that certain observations about the universe are failing to match up with physicists' predictions. Perhaps some portion of it is wrong; over the centuries, science has periodically thrown out widely-accepted ideas based on new evidence."

"One of them, Eric Weinstein, went on Piers Morgan's YouTube talk show in May to complain about academics ignoring his "Theory of Geometric Unity" that supposedly unifies all the forces of physics. On the same show, though, John Hopkins physicist Sean Carroll pointed out why: in the paper, Weinstein admits right off the bat that his theory is "partially remembered and stitched together" from old notes and documents. "It's not serious," Carroll excoriated. "It's a dog-ate-my-homework kind o""

Internet platforms have enabled a profit-driven economy of outrage and conspiracy, giving fringe grifters wide reach. Critics allege theoretical physicists collude to maintain groupthink, citing the absence of transformative discoveries and a unified framework reconciling quantum and classical physics. Physics' focus on ideas like string theory and dark matter, and some mismatches between observation and prediction, feed skepticism. Scientific consensus can change with new evidence. High-profile fringe proposals often lack rigor or clear evidence; one prominent example admitted to being pieced together from old notes and was dismissed by mainstream physicists as unserious.

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