But Sabine Hossenfelder? You may not agree with what she says, but she's always well thought out and coherent, and she comes across as very sincere. She also attempts to be as clear as possible in what she's saying, avoiding any kind of obfuscation.
Very good point. Definitely not fair to dismiss her out of hand as quackery. She does seem to have a bit of an agenda, though. Useful as one perspective, not so useful as the only perspective.
Can you actually offer a substantive critique of what she's saying?
Hmm
Secondly, you get a bit of a credibility hit when you're only presenting the negative results in a field. Letting aside the fact that in any research field there will be a number of failed models and thus negative results, the bias of showing negatives without any qualification (say, by distinguishing them using some sort of metric that describes the distance of the proposed failed theory from the SM) looks a lot like cherry picking. Especially since the (few and disproportionately visible) positive results presented are kind of glossed over. True, finding a novel decay mode or a new unstable quark combination is not as flashy as finding the Higgs, but last time I checked (and it's been quite a while, since HEP is not my main concern or too adjacent to it, so feel free to correct me) our understanding of the strong interaction is not as complete as we'd like. So presenting the field the way she does makes it seem that it's "all are wackos" instead of "there are wackos" - and we're back to Euler diagrams and that dash of dishonesty.
Lastly, her suggestion of directions for moving forward is