"In a less sophisticated era it would have gone without saying that the mere advent of the technical capability to test important unverified predictions of an accepted physics theory imposed upon physicists an unspoken moral obligation to pull up their socks and do that testing. Nowadays it is a different matter. Funding dictates the morality of science, not to mention its integrity. And now that Einstein has been apotheosized, it has become a breach of faith to doubt His Word by openly suggesting that it be tested" (Thomas Phipps, Infinite Energy 52, 2003).

Does Phipps have a point? Or is it sour grapes? How is Phipps held in informed circles?