"Lost in Math" by Sabine Hossenfelder, ISBN 9780465094257.
Nominally, the book is questioning popular assumptions ('simplicity' and 'beauty') that appear to be driving theoretical physics research. It seems that many clever people got caught in the honeytrap of untestable and unprovable but mathematically sound hallucinations. And they keep getting paid for it.
It would probably be impossible for someone from the other side of science to write credible book about science mafia. Sabine (a theoretical physicist herself) does a good job (she also sings ... see https://www.youtube.com/user/peppermint78/videos )
The parallels with social ... ehm ... sciences and theories are staggering, numerous and entertaining. I'd recommend it to anyone involved in sponsored philosophical-theoretical-social circuits, and sick of it.
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