Because the bill is due for cosmology’s free, non-falsifiable lunch.
At least, that is the impression one gets from Columbia mathematician Peter Woit’s comments Here:
Next week there will be a workshop in Munich with the title Why Trust a Theory? Reconsidering Scientific Methodology in Light of Modern Physics. It’s organized by Richard Dawid, to discuss his ideas about “non-empirical theory confirmation”, developed to defend string theory research against accusations that its failure to make any testable predictions about anything make it a failure as a research program.
I guess the idea of such a workshop is to bring together string theory proponents and critics to sort things out, but looking at the program and talk abstracts, this doesn’t look promising, with the central issues to be evaded, and speakers likely to just talk past each other. More.
Because if the funding is there, they can still get away with that.
See also: Astronomer Hugh Ross on degrees of certainty in science
Multiverse cosmology: Assuming that evidence still matters, what does it say?
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In search of a road to reality
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