>>935
No you are absolutely right, a lot of 'science' is little more than marketing bs and a huge amount of publications are absolute trash. Even the ones published in high ranking journals. I must say I was shocked how easy it is to get stuff accepted. In the end it runs like this: I accept your paper, you accept my paper, everyone's a winner. You start critizising publications you will make a lot of enemies. Needless to say I did, which is why we'll never get any prizes or top-ranking positions in science. Thank goodness. Well at least you could go entrepreneur, that's not an option in Germany because the government will fuck you up - unless you have the before mentioned connections.

But the point remains, the universe is needlessly complex. Unless it was designed by a thoroughly evil god in order to purposefully deceive us or some autist it is just too much fluff. Who needs 30.000 species of tiny parasitic wasps that all look the same and are never seen by the average human? Millions different of algae and bacteria? 90 billion light years of observable universe? The mentioned quantum hall effect stuff also seems highly unnecessary garbage. Who benefits? Humans would easily have accepted a tiny fraction of that complexity. It is just there because it can. But it hogs unnecessary computing power of a simulation. If anything it is a very badly programmed simulation that won't get any energy efficientcy label and would be very bad for climate.

Only people who haven't seen the insane fractal complexity of nature and have never left the US&A believe in simulations.