> The academy (in physics at least), is crusty and traditional, but not to the point of ignoring good work. I think experimental physics is always looking for

> The academy (in physics at least), is crusty and traditional, but not to the point of ignoring good work. I think experimental physics is always looking for theories that explain what they see, but theoretical physics hasn't delivered in the last few decades and the people employed doing theoretical physics have mostly succeeded at a political game, not a scientific one. > It's like alternative medicine, do you think if essential oils cured cancer you wouldn't have all the big pharma companies leaping from their high horses? There are effective chemicals offered in Europe that are not offered in the US. Sunblock is better outside the US for example. This is because of pharmaceutical interests and the US regulatory framework (which are really the same thing). If an essential oil cured cancer, I agree that word would get out, but the idea that things that work in any capacity for a specific ailment are automatically adopted by whatever corporation deals in that ailment is just not true.