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Would people argue over the proper treatment for cancer as prescribed by physicians and oncologists?

Don't answer that.

Physicists who need a little help with the math become experimentalist. JK. (I was an experimental physicist.)

Physics is already open in a real way. It's just that the natural language of physics is math. And people don't like math, for whatever reason.

Re dismissing things out of hand: unfortunately, sometimes the errors are so obvious that all it takes is one look to see that it's wrong. I mean, if it's easy for a practicing musician to identify a chord by ear, why should one think a physicist is arrogant if they can spot the error right away?

(See my other comments here on arguing about conservation of energy and momentum in an online forum.)

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You know, I suspect it's much more common to find people arguing over proper cancer treatment, because they want to believe their care is right. And if they don't like math, or science, they'll make sweeping wrong statements about their health, because they don't know how to make the right explanation feel right.

[heeen2]

> Would people argue over the proper treatment for cancer as prescribed by physicians and oncologists?

of course they would. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amygdalin