This is like that sidebar you have with someone after you have joined a series of meetings and listened intently and have all these nagging suspicions and you are in denial about people who you think could not possibly be talking this much nonsense because they clearly should know more than you. A few seconds into the sidebar the person tells you that everyone is full of shit, and you find relief in that you were actually understanding everything you were hearing and yes, you were drawing the right conclusions.
The response of the physicists they say should get a slap is, in programming terms, basically shut up and show me the code. It's a fairly one sided debate that we're blessed with seeing in literally every thread anywhere about it
The physics community could use a few more slaps in the face, according to many physicists.