Also in the Preface (page 8), Unzicker writes: "It is no excuse that, unfortunately, there are other degenerations of the scientific method in the realm of theoretical physics: super-symmetry and string theory which never predicted anything about anything and never will. It is a sign of the rottenness of particle physics that nobody has the guts to declare the nontestable as nonsense, though many know perfectly well that it is. They are all afraid of the collateral damage to their own shaky building, should the string bubble collapse. The continuous flow of public funding they depend so much on requires consensus and appeasement. However, experimental particle physics is somehow more dangerous to science as a whole, because with its observational fig leaves, it continues to beguile everybody that they are doing science instead of pushing technology to its limits."
"But the worst thing about the standard model of particle physics is the stalling in the intellectual progress of humankind it has caused. We need to get rid of that junk to evolve further."
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