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jostpuur said:One of the biggest problems with physicists' bad math is that it attracts wrong kind of people.
When a scientific community insists that explanations and claims must be logical, it serves as a sieve that filters out those who are capable of only babbling nonsense. The policy of physicists to allow nonsensical pseudomathematical carbage under the pretense of intuition has had the consequence that the sieve isn't working. Wrong kind of people get into the community and corrupt it from inside.
Some people defend the bad math with argument that it hasn't caused any harm. They might demand evidence that some harm has been done. Well it is the job of future historians to study what harm the modern pseudomathematical culture has produced. I wouldn't be surprised if the mandkind could already have achieved warm superconductors and fusion energy if only physicists had not declared war on mathematics.
I'm not sure I understand the problem you are talking about. What kind of people in the scientific community are guilty of "babbling nonsense" because of their bad math in particular?