Comment by refulgentis
4 days ago
Sabine Hossenfelder cast herself out from academia and took a recent turn to monetizing laundering peoples vague understanding string theory is a waste of time (cannot be proven empirically) into academia is doing fake work and if they'd apologize and own up to it, maybe we would trust them again.
Most famously, through a bizarrely written letter from an anonymous whistleblower pleading that she not topple the academy, as it would ruin the lives of thousands of academics making up things to get grant money to survive.
I can't parse either of your sentences. Maybe you could introduce some intermediate variables, or use parentheses to give them structure?
I can't parse what you're asking for :|
Ran my comment + your reply through AI and asked it to respond to you, as I do want to help. Let me know if there's other instructions I can give it, it may have taken your variable ask too literally? :(
Here's its output:
Sabine Hossenfelder, after distancing herself from academia, has recently pivoted to monetizing a specific narrative: Let’s define Premise A as “String theory is a waste of time because it cannot be empirically proven.”
She generalizes from Premise A to a broader Claim B: “Academia, more broadly, is producing fake work.”
Her argument seems to imply that:
If academia were to publicly acknowledge this, or apologize for promoting unverifiable theories, then the public might begin to trust it again.
This general thrust reached a kind of crescendo in one of her more notorious moments: — An oddly written letter, allegedly from a whistleblower within academia, essentially begging her not to “bring down the system.” The letter’s rationale? That dismantling the status quo would destroy the livelihoods of thousands of academics who, according to the letter, are fabricating just enough plausible-sounding work to secure grants and stay afloat.
Pretty valuable to have people who see A to be true, have presumably seen some of B to be true too (trivial to see with the many replication crises) - and then to do their best to disseminate that to the general public so change can be made. I see no problem there, and I'd hate for the case where people were afraid to make content covering it because they were waiting for years for huge studies (which could also be poorly done) to 'prove' it.