Allow me to hijack this thread. There is something very similar to the issue around repeatability of results in Psych fields and the lack of experimental eviden

Allow me to hijack this thread. There is something very similar to the issue around repeatability of results in Psych fields and the lack of experimental evidence in theoretical particle physics which has been the focus of previous articles on HN. Both fields are dealing with large elephants in their respective fields in which some people know what the issue is, but rather than having a widespread reckoning, people keep publishing papers as if everything is okay. If anything, this demonstrates a problem that peer-reviewed science is not able to fix. I have my own thoughts, it's due to the siloed nature of science today, given publish of perish forces us to keep our head down and keep publishing whilst ignoring the big picture problems with the hope someone with more funding in a more prestiguous position will do something. It's more problematic in Psych though, because people and their quality of life are at stake which is not a situation in theoretical physics.