Nobody sane is predicting "no new phenomena at the multiple TeV scale". The correct statement is "no credible predictions of new phenomena at the multiple TeV s

Nobody sane is predicting "no new phenomena at the multiple TeV scale". The correct statement is "no credible predictions of new phenomena at the multiple TeV scale". Not so much because such predictions come from "(often the same) theorists", but because the available data really doesn't offer much of a clue as to what might lie beyond the LHC's reach. There may be new phenomena at the multiple TeV scale, but it is also quite possible that there is nothing there, and nothing all the way up to the Planck scale. Without even naturalness to lean on, the only guiding principle left is "pay and pray".