This is addressed a bit in the Reddit thread, where the comments from practicing scientists seem to mostly agree with you. Mathematicians are claiming they aren

This is addressed a bit in the Reddit thread, where the comments from practicing scientists seem to mostly agree with you. Mathematicians are claiming they aren't affected at all, physicists are claiming that disproving a major theory in physics would get you a Nobel instead of scorn, and the bioscientists saying it's a bigger problem in their field. That said, I think it's dangerous to give any branch of science an automatic pass on this. The fundamental causes of the Decline Effect aren't limited to the "soft" sciences, they just currently seem to have a more susceptible culture.