Did you mean "straw man" or did you mean Matthew 12:29
"Or again, how can anyone enter a strong man's house and carry off his possessions unless he first ties up the strong man? Then he can rob his house."
If you wanna go after charlatanism posing as science, attack string theory. It, too, cannot be empirically tested. Instead of treating it as mathematical games, for whatever ungodly reason most physicists take it seriously.
The two of you might enjoy this:
As Supersymmetry Fails Tests, Physicists Seek New Ideas
Cheers!
I already corrected myself as intending to say “straw man” in post 54.
Supersymmetry really belongs to particle physics, not string theory. Or is your point that if string theory is shaky, so is particle physics (raspberry!)? Well, I admit theoretical physics as a whole has been stagnant for 50 years or so. It was a wild ride from Faraday’s field theory, through relativity to quantum physics and finally the Standard Model. Since then, crickets.
Maybe it’s that we’ve wasted time in string fantasy land, or maybe we’ve exgausted our options and are stuck until some new technological breakthrough let us see more.