If science has not become a cult why do people get triggered if you don't believe the standard model?

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[–]weavilsatemyface 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Have you read Thomas Kuhn, "The Structure Of Scientific Revolutions"?

Science is not a cult, but people get attached to the dominant paradigm.

Particle physics has been stuck in a degenerate research programme for something like 20 years now. The last significant correct prediction was the Higgs Boson, predicted in 1964. The problem with the Standard Model is that it is amazingly accurate for what it explains, but seems to be going nowhere now. And string theory is junk science going nowhere, making no useful predictions, and unfalsifiable.

[–]R51 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

people get attached to the dominant paradigm

This is pretty much it. Can't be calling science itself a cult just because people in general tend to internalize popular belief and try to win arguments.