"Most of the physicists at Harvard and MIT don't even realize that what they're doing is not physics at all, not even science, really."

Brief, provocative, plausible rant by Alexey Guzey. I've no idea whether it's accurate. (Do you?)

I'm guessing that this doesn't apply to condensed matter physics, and people there are doing genuine science. However, at MIT at least, that may be in the materials science department, rather than the physics department.

I took their intro course in 1981 and hated it, but have often found what I grudgingly learned there useful decades later.