It's worse than that, those areas are taken over by know-nothings who are great at politics and terrible in their field. The people deciding tenure and grants

It's worse than that, those areas are taken over by know-nothings who are great at politics and terrible in their field. The people deciding tenure and grants are the best physicists, they are the best politicians who happen to have had a physics degree, or physics adjacent at some point in their education.