Piffle!
I haven't seen this much codswallop on a single thread in quite a while.
The problem with astrophysics and particle physics generally is that a very select group of people expound some very arcane hypothesis using paradigms only they can understand and then they can't prove them to even their own peer groups ,so they postulate a new theory and so on and so forth ad nausean. And there is no way a congressional appropiator or their staff can really make a proper evaluation when faced with a request for a larger particle accelerator or other huge megabuck project.
With the refinement of specialization, we have lost our intuitiveness.