>>12790653interesting question. i would say the answer is yes. and i think the reason is not so hard to grasp at least in the context of physics. if you look at the history of physics, more and more the concepts have become more unnatural for people to comprehend, or in other words they challenge the simple intuition that everyday common sense is based on. therefore, two things happen: 1) it becomes easy for woo-woo people to trick the untrained minds of the masses into thinking physics justifies outlandish claims. 2) it becomes easier for the simple-minded engineer or old-fashioned person to appeal to common sense to try and say why the counterintuitive physics is wrong and thus whoever is listening them should trust them to believe in their seemingly common sense ideas which might either be outmoded thought or quackery or some mixture
some examples: 1) obviously has quantum woo-woo people like John Hagelin who says that grand unified theories imply the existence of a field of consciousness that enables telekenesis, 2) has the example of the Electric Universe folks who are convinced a ether exists and einstein was wrong and quantum is wrong but they’re so smart that they know gravity is really magnetism and black holes don’t exist because the evidence is a conspiracy to suppress the “it’s all magnets” community
then there is even overlap which is very cringe. you’d figure 1ers and 2ers are at obvious sides of the spectrum, but indeed the möbius strip of idiocy loops back on itself
