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It's a scam meant to keep academics employed. It's all unfalsifiable but it leads to money and prestige for its followers. There's your answer.
This explains most of the soft sciences, frankly. "We must protect our phoney-baloney jobs!"
Marxist-Pol Potism is alive and well it seems
Theoretical physics is not "all unfalsifiable," nor is it a "soft science" (?!), nor are most of the soft sciences useless or illegitimate. You are operating on chauvinism and vibes.
Academics are workers.
They are paid a wage by universities to teach courses, which are the product the university sells, and write papers, which attract further funding and builds the university's prestige, attracting more students (customers). The university pockets the (often OOM greater than their wages) surplus value produced by these academics and fires them if they are no longer producing surplus value. There are conversations to be had about the often exploitative and prone to abuse nature of the relationship between established academics and the graduate students and postgraduate researchers they supervise, and the role of first world academics can have (esp. in business & law, humanities, engineering) in maintaining capitalism and imperialism but it's not disputable that (almost all) academics are workers.
Graduate students are basically slaves. Underpaid and abused. Total bourgeois behavior.
Aside from the fact that many professors are increasingly also treated like shit (look up "adjunctification"), do you think the professors are employing the grad students or decide how much they get paid? Also, many, many professors don't have teaching assistants at all.
I know that it can be rhetorically very effective to just "say things" (i.e. to make assertions without needing to ground them in evidence or inference) and attack attack attack, but when you start out the gate saying things that are patently absurd, it makes you look like you're grasping at straws. It also works much better when speaking rather than over text.
Whichever "it" you're referring to (theoretical physics or soft sciences), humanity owes a great deal to both. Do you think the theory of relativity is just scribbles on a chalkboard?
I promise you that you can reverse course and you won't be losing anything. There's no need to dig in your heels over something so silly.
"Harrumf! Harrumf! Gentlemen! We must protect our phoney-baloney jobs!
So do you know any physics or are you just saying things?
This is the appeal to authority logical fallacy.
Damn I didn't realize Mao was committing a logical fallacy when he said "No investigation, no right to speak"
Whatever that is, the CPC doesn't believe in it and hasn't for a long time. Mao was 70% right and 30% wrong. He was wrong a LOT. Eespecially Jiang Qing, who was a queen evil and member of the Gang of Four
So no?
If you are being genuine then please leave the whining about fallacies back on Reddit.
Genuine? I am an actual commie propagandist. I make real-live propaganda for card-carrying members of the communist party. Of my own free will. I don't even get paid! You really want to play this game?
As a commie you are obliged to self-crit and not speak nonsense about things you have not researched.
Gotta love referencing rfa. Really sells the inflammatory bit you seem to have committed yourself too lol
That’s a lot of stuff not related to you talking about physics when you have no idea about it
RFA 😭 (tears of joy) masterful bit genuinely. Really bringing to life the hybrid of Gordon Chang and Pol Pot. When shall we round up all the glasses wearers Chairman Pol Chang (Gordon Pot?)?
...asking whether YOU know anything about the subject under discussion has literally nothing to do with an appeal to authority, are you OK?
As a commie propagandist you should be familiar with this old saw: no investigation, no right to speak! Was Mao doing an appeal to authority, too? Or is that just a reasonable expectation for any sensible person to have?
You are clinging to anti-intellectualism with no support for your position in the face of the fact that, again, the theory of relativity was the product of theoretical physics and it's extremely important to the modern world.
Why are you so attached to your conclusion that it leads you to behave this way? How does it help you?
Because that theory fed SO many people. It created nuclear weapons which may yet end the entire world and poison the planet for millions of years.
This reads like thinly veiled Deutsche Physik bullshit about certain sciences being too abstract and Jewish. Relativity and quantum are not just theory of nuclear weapons. (Edited to dial this back slightly)
It is also the basis for radiological medical imaging technologies, as well as basically all satellite systems, including GPS, which is vital to many systems beyond just navigation. Your objection is completely unserious.
I repeat: Why are you so attached to your conclusion that it leads you to behave this way? How does it help you?
Casting all theoretical physics as fake drivel is just anti-intellectualism. Read a book.