Billion Dollar Confirmation Bias

Billion Dollar Confirmation Bias
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Particle physicists and their funding committees in a nutshell. Scientists beg for billions to build fancy new accelerators with promises of revolutionary discoveries, only to confirm what we already knew. The Standard Model remains undefeated despite our desperate attempts to break it. That disappointed frog face is every theoretical physicist who proposed an exotic particle that never materialized. Meanwhile, taxpayers are wondering why we need another underground ring that costs more than a small country's GDP.

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