That can go here too*smile emoticon*I love mathematics but boy,
   it's subject to some severe Cult of Pythagoras. When Max Tegmark
   wrote his popular book about the Universe is Mathematics, I
   laughed out loud.
   Then... people starting believing it.
   Hook, line and sinker.
   All I could do is sigh.*

   THEN a group of theoretical physicists were pushing to break
   away from the requirement for empirical evidence because
   'they're special".. [and funding will be cut from String Theory
   because it didn't produce tangible results fast enough which
   they were REALLY addicted to]...

   ... and I was like, "omg..really? They'll just shove themselves
   into the Philosophy dept at best if they do that..."

   So it's been interesting to watch the developments of new belief
   systems.