It occurred to me while reading Scott's blog article that a very interesting idea for a SciFi novel would be to explore a future society where are current religions are replaced with these QM religions.
Reminds me - what happened to the Church of String, I mean String theory? IIRC that was the ultimate "nothing can ever be tested, not even a tiniest part" theory
a) are almost universally honest about the empirical difficulties in their field,
b) are reasonably exploring the possible theoretical options to hopefully create testable predictions for a future experiment/telescope (science is hard)
c) have made major advances in mathematics, with important (and testable) applications outside of string theory
I feel like you’re projecting the attitude of one sometimes unscrupulous scientist (Brian Greene) onto the entire field. Although laypeople’s fascination with string theory has died down it is still a vital and vibrant field.
For me, part of the "Zen Anti-Interpretation of QM" is to accept that there will be theories that are untestable mathematical models of reality. Testable mathematically - but not with a big particle accelerator.
