I can't believe this really happened.(Sabine Hossenfelder)

My former academic institution discontinued my affiliation with them after members of the community complained about my criticism, on their research, and on academic conduct in general, and I refused to agree to tone policing. Free speech in Germany has a big problem indeed.



Censorship and groupthink at work in physics. There's apparently a lot of people working on mathematical models that are divorced from reality that do not address what is actually observed. Rather than engaging in debate the academics being challenged end up censoring the critics. This is not how science is supposed to work. Does this sound familiar? Whether or not you agree with everything Sabine raises the way forward is to engage.  

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, September 18, 2025.]