Lol the arrogance in this comment. “The hundreds/thousands of people who work on theoretical physics are just too dumb to step back and take a look at the big picture.”
Of the 4.4 million software developers in the US, most of them produce really bad code and have a lot of wrong ideas about development and don't think twice about what they're doing.
Same with the medical field - rife with dysfunction and malpractice.
Pretty much all fields work like this as far as I can tell. It sometimes takes hundreds of years for new correct ideas to be actually accepted and integrated into the mainstream knowledge/practice in any given field. Most people have giant egos and are resistant to change.