This piece gives off a bad vibe. My BS alarm bells are ringing. It uses words like verifying and confirming instead of falsifying and testing. It proclaims how he was right all along, long before his theory was tested. Even for a sales pitch, this is pushing it a bit.
Well, in popular writings they use what they like. In formal writing the standard is rather neutral, something like “A Standard Model Higgs boson is excluded at the 95% confidence level in the mass ranges from 110.0 GeV to 117.5 GeV” or “the signal level in our experiment was “The most significant excess of events is observed around 126 GeV with a local significance of 2.5sigma. The global probability for such an excess to occur in the full searched mass range is approximately 30%.” (from the current arxiv.org/hep-ex).
Do physicists really speak differently?
Not sure what you mean.
You’re a physicist, right? Do physicists use different terms (“falsifying” and “testing” vs “verifying” and “confirming”) than de Grey?
Well, in popular writings they use what they like. In formal writing the standard is rather neutral, something like “A Standard Model Higgs boson is excluded at the 95% confidence level in the mass ranges from 110.0 GeV to 117.5 GeV” or “the signal level in our experiment was “The most significant excess of events is observed around 126 GeV with a local significance of 2.5sigma. The global probability for such an excess to occur in the full searched mass range is approximately 30%.” (from the current arxiv.org/hep-ex).