It seems like Hossenfelder is arguing that a lot of theoretical physics is Lakatos degenerative: * https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/lakatos/ https://plato.st

It seems like Hossenfelder is arguing that a lot of theoretical physics is Lakatos degenerative: * https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/lakatos/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/lakatos/ * https://aeon.co/essays/imre-lakatos-and-the-philosophy-of-bad-science https://aeon.co/essays/imre-lakatos-and-the-philosophy-of-ba... * https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Imre_Lakatos https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Imre_Lakatos > The difference between a progressive and a degenerative research programme lies, for Lakatos, in whether the recent changes to its auxiliary hypotheses have achieved this greater explanatory/predictive power or whether they have been made simply out of the necessity of offering some response in the face of new and troublesome evidence.