Superdeterminism: Is Sabine Hossenfelder's Appeal Anti-Scientific?

Sabine Hossenfelder's 'anti-scientific' appeal to superdeterminism. In the 2022 article "The fantasy behind Sabine Hossenfelder’s superdeterminism" Bernardo Kastrup, PhD, states "If I were tasked with looking for hidden variables—just as I once was tasked with looking for the Higgs boson—I wouldn’t know even how to begin, because we are not told by Hossenfelder what they are supposed to be. She is just furiously waving her hands and saying, “there has to be something (I have no clue what) that somehow (I have no clue how) does what I need it to do so I can continue to believe in a physicalist metaphysics.” And in his 2022 article "Does Quantum Mechanics Rule Out Free Will?" John Horgan states "Superdeterminism doesn’t specify what the hidden variables of quantum mechanics are; it just decrees that they exist, and that they specify everything that happens, including my decision to write these words and your decision to read them., Hossenfelder and I argued about free will in a conversation last summer. I pointed out that we both made the choice to speak to each other;, Hossenfelder sternly informed me. “Everything is physics. You’re made of particles.” I felt like we were talking past each other. To her, a nondeterministic world makes no sense. To me, a world without choice makes no sense." Indeed, 'makes no sense' is an understatement. Denying free will undermines rationality altogether and therefore undermines science itself. Specifically, (1) rationality implies a thinker in control of thoughts. (2) under determinism a thinker is an effect caused by physical processes in the brain. (3) in order for determinism to ground rationality a thinker (an effect) must control physical processes in the brain (a cause). (1)and(2). (4) Yet, no effect can control its cause. Conclusion, Therefore determinism cannot ground rationality. Moreover, in a 2018 paper titled "Cosmic Bell Test Using Random Measurement Settings from High-Redshift Quasars" Zeilinger and company pushed "back to at least approx. 7.8 billion years ago the most recent time by which any local-realist influences could have exploited the “freedom-of-choice” loophole to engineer the observed Bell violation, excluding any such mechanism from 96% of the space-time volume of the past light cone of our experiment, extending from the big bang to today.". Instead of accepting those experimental results showing we have free will, Hossenfelder instead opted for superdeterminism, where ‘superdetermined’ events are held to somehow ‘conspire’ to fool us into erroneously believing our experimental results showing us that quantum theory is correct (and that we do have the free will necessary to choose our measurement settings). To call such a move on the part of Sabine Hossenfelder, (the rejection of experimental results that conflict with her apriori philosophical belief in Atheistic Naturalism), unscientific would be a severe understatement. It is a rejection of the entire scientific method itself. She, in her appeal to ‘superdeterminism’, is basically arguing that we cannot trust what the experimental results of quantum mechanics themselves are telling us because events in the remote past could have ‘conspired’ to give us erroneous experimental results today. As should be needless to say, if we cannot trust what our experimental results are telling us, then empirical science is, for all practical purposes, dead. In short, not only does Hossenfelder's appeal to superdeterminism undermine rationality altogether, it is also 'anti-scientific' in that it blatantly ignores experimental results.