Rebecca WatsonHere we go again: popular YouTube physicist Sabine Hossenfelder is extremely wrong about something! This time, she argues in favor of capitalism, saying that without it, we wouldn't have scientific progress. The Nobel prize winner she cites begs to disagree. https://skepchick.org/2023/09/sabine-is-wrong-again-capitalism-wouldve-killed-penicillin/
Righteous Hazard@rebeccawatson wtf is up with physicists’ urge to pontificate outside their subject? Did the failed “Theory of Everything” project just ruin them, or something?
And I find it hilarious that a physicist is on that beat. Outside of Bell Labs (which received significant public funding), there has been almost no significant private-capital-funded physics discoveries since Michelson freaking Morley.