I tend to agree (as an ex particle physicist who spent 8 years hunting for hypothetical supersymmetrical particles at the LHC), but to be honest what works is

I tend to agree (as an ex particle physicist who spent 8 years hunting for hypothetical supersymmetrical particles at the LHC), but to be honest what works is the scientific method and that requires both blind evidence and theory driven falsification to produce new knowledge. In particle physics we switched paradigm after the invention of QCD and the electroweak theories, and now it’s difficult getting back to pure discovery driven research as the risk seems too high to both sponsors and researchers.