[deepthaw]

The problem is all the easy problems have been solved, and even all the hard problems have been solved in science. We're down to the really hard problems, and since our otherwise astoundingly accurate observations of how the universe acts are thrown off by them, everything looks weird and fringe at the very hard edges.

[cryptonector]

Sure, we have to think outside the box to solve some of those problems. Or we need more data (and tech to gather it with). Or both. Thinking outside the box means differing from the standard consensus. Differing from the standard consensus causes controversy. Some wildly outside the box thinking will be not even wrong.