>>16834336 (OP)
It started out benign enough as a prospective theory to explain the strong nuclear force. Then Gell-Mann's QCD came around and the stringy stuff was abandoned by the absolute majority of researchers. Then it was found that string theory can only work in 22 dimensions and produces mumbo jumbo shit like tachyons.
Meanwhile, supersymmetry became a hot new topic by the early 80s due to some interesting cancellation properties and many other technical details. Then Ramond came up with a way to incorporate fermions into string theory via supersymmetry. This is where the hype train started.
Soon enough a bunch of Jews formed a cult based on claims that are dubious at best and pushed their shit on everyone. It never really gained much traction in Europe, where grants are more about actual results, but it blew the fuck up overnight in the US where grants are entirely about clout, college name, and other Jewish marketing tactics. The Jewish cult emerged from the Ivies, mostly Princeton, which didn't help much. It promised to solve everything and be the theory of everything based on some really strange claims like
>it "naturally" incorporates gravity (no shit, that every massless rank 2 field is isomorphic to gravity was proven all the way back in the 50s)
>it will definitely derive all Standard Model parameters from a single parameter, the string length (still no actual SM predictions in 2025)
>it will definitely be confirmed at the LHC bro (the LHC rejected minimal supersymmetry and large extra dimensions)
After the peak in the 90s, it was suddenly found that their mumbo jumbo needs to continuously cook up shit to battle against experimental evidence against it (R-parity, cosmological constant sign, no susy at LHC). By the mid 10s, they started to cope with muh framework and muh solid state. Today not even the most hardcore string theorist believes what they say in public, but they just need to keep milking the grant machine.
