[eggy]

Nice quote, although like Smolin, and the thoughts expressed in the backreaction.com article [1], I am skeptical of the manner in which physics is being carried out with a potential disregard for the scientific method - lack of experimental evidence - in string theory, and surprisingly in particle physics too.

Funding, and self-motivating research also has proven to be detrimental to research in the social sciences of late, but that seems to be with misapplication of statistical principles, and insufficient peer review, but a whole lot of citations.

[1] http://backreaction.blogspot.co.id/2016/08/the-lhc-nightmare...