It's not even that. Physicists can generate quadrillions of elementary particles per nanosecond and observe whatever interactions they're looking for faster tha

It's not even that. Physicists can generate quadrillions of elementary particles per nanosecond and observe whatever interactions they're looking for faster than they can type up the paper. Human subject research requires recruitment, consent, IRB approval, waiting possibly decades for effects to show up. Hacker News seems to think physicists are just uniquely better scientists for some reason. They're not. Some research questions are inherently harder to answer. There is no particle collider analog that can spawn a few million humans out of thin air, give them heart disease, perform a surgery, and tell you what happens in a matter of minutes, no matter how much funding you sink into it.