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“Few are able to calmly pronounce opinions that dissent from the prejudices of their environment; most are even incapable ever to reach such opinions.[20] – Albert Einstein”
― Alexander Unzicker, The Higgs Fake - How Particle Physicists Fooled the Nobel Committee

“The Higgs Mass Hysteria If Anything, the Hype of the Century On July 4, 2012, at the famous CERN seminar, scientists applauded, cheered, celebrated. The news spread quickly all over the world that the Higgs had been discovered (nobody cared about the subtleties of “the Higgs” and “a Higgs”), allegedly the verification of an almost 50-year-old idea formulated by a Scottish theoretician. The nonsense starts right here.”
― Alexander Unzicker, The Higgs Fake - How Particle Physicists Fooled the Nobel Committee

“But you don’t have to be an ichthyologist to know when a fish stinks.”
― Alexander Unzicker, The Higgs Fake - How Particle Physicists Fooled the Nobel Committee

“It is easier to recognize a prejudice in its naïve primitive form than the sophisticated dogma to which it often transforms.[7] – Erwin Schrödinger”
― Alexander Unzicker, The Higgs Fake - How Particle Physicists Fooled the Nobel Committee

“Then Jerome Friedmann, Nobel prize winner of 1990, thoughtfully declares, If the Higgs is discovered, it will be a great triumph for the standard model, if the Higgs is not discovered, it is practically certain that there is something in Nature that is equally interesting, maybe even more interesting that would create the symmetry breaking required by the standard model. And why do I say it’s required? Because the standard model is so good.”
― Alexander Unzicker, The Higgs Fake - How Particle Physicists Fooled the Nobel Committee

“Adherents of homeopathy claim that the greater the dilution, the more effective the drug, particle physics say the rarer the event, the more important it is. It is an ideology, nothing else than a steady transition to nontestability: while scrutinizing this almost-nothing they head for knowing everything on nothing.”
― Alexander Unzicker, The Higgs Fake - How Particle Physicists Fooled the Nobel Committee

“Here is the key element of good science: If the researcher knows the details she also can give you a wholesale picture. If she has understood it, she can also explain it to Joe Sixpack.”
― Alexander Unzicker, The Higgs Fake - How Particle Physicists Fooled the Nobel Committee

“you are free to complain about my lack of knowledge in complicated details and to mock my supposedly somehow naïve visions. But at the same time I feel free to mock CERN for not making use of the only useful thing it has produced, the World Wide Web.”
― Alexander Unzicker, The Higgs Fake - How Particle Physicists Fooled the Nobel Committee