Researchers need encouragement, not hypocrites

Go to arxiv.org and search for "theory of everything". You get 82 results. 82 preprints in 24 years. That is really low. After all, researchers are all looking for  theory of everything, aren't they? Two preprints are by Nobel prize winners, but both are nonsense. The other 80 preprints are equally nonsense. The truth is this: 0 real papers about the topic.

Imagine that a manager heading an organisation with 5 000 employees that work for 24 years to find a law of nature. He pays them a salary and promises money and fame to the finder. Of the 5 000, in over 24 years, nobody succeeds. The manager did something wrong. So did the 5 000 employees.

But the story gets even better. A few commenters state loudly that something is wrong. But when asked, they refuse to give hints where to search, they refuse to give advice, and they refuse to encourage others. These hypocrites are a disaster: they discourage their peers more than the lack of results does.

When you search, you need encouragement, not hypocrites. Shut the hypocrites up - or change them into encouraging fellows.