Guilt by association

 

"Professor" Dave messes with the wrong mama, and comes out as a 100% pro-establishment shill. But we knew that already. 

Note the guilt by association, science fraud denial, science slow down denial, weird misunderstandings of Hossenfelder´s points and outright paranoia. Dude, get a grip! The Velikovskians won´t bite you.

I think Pravda-esque propagandists like my man Dave will collapse together with current establishment science circa 2040, although I suppose it´s possible that they will make a U-turn at the last possible moment (as many Communists did in 1989-91). Of course, when this crisis happens, all kinds of actual kooks might indeed gain an audience, but that´s precisely why we need science communicators like Sabine Hossenfelder, who try to save the scientific method from the really existing institutions (and some of the really existing scientists). And the math? 

I suppose we could see Hossenfelder as a kind of Gorbachev, while Dave is firmly stuck in the Chernenko era...