Interesting analysis from my favorite severe no nonsense physics youtuber gal (who also used to randomly post vids of her doing cover songs to peoples' general confusion lol).
Good bit at the end speculating on the material economic basis for this (useless) way of doing science. People make careers on this fluff that amounts to nothing.
They have to do whatever the business class wants, same as everyone else. Science is fucked under capitalism and the best you're going to get is expensive toys and overpriced insulin. Science itself is not a force for bad, capitalist 'science' is.