While she makes the rounds on HN, it is really worth noting that as she says, Sabine Hossenfelder is more or less a pariah amongst particle physicists, as was L

While she makes the rounds on HN, it is really worth noting that as she says, Sabine Hossenfelder is more or less a pariah amongst particle physicists, as was Lee Smolin before her. It's disappointing though because I largely agree with her assessment, too much of particle physics has left what I would consider science and is now a paper generation exercise (not that that isn't throughout science, but particle theory is even more so in that direction). This is one of those places where peer-review fails, if you study or proclaim something against the prevailing norms. There is a slight hope for you if you're a well known name already, like Hossenfelder, but it's pretty much a death sentence for you if you're at a no-name university somewhere. There really is no motivation to pierce the wall vs. just silently doing little incremental work that continues the current established theory even when on a whole that theory is leading the field nowhere. Usually, at some point the funding dries up but they're lucky all the big famous names are sympathetic to particle physics and it continues to command a large amount of funding amongst those studying fundamental physics. So things march on.