Well, you know how to write well, so no problem there! I guess you'd just better be diplomatic when you explain the source of the problems...
Have you read Three Body Problem by Cixin Lu? It starts out with all these physicists getting crazy garbage results because the laws of nature are being messed with by alien interference. Maybe something like that's going on over there in Europe?
Not yet but it sounds fun!
Really highly recommended - the mind-expanding kind of SF that leaves you thinking for days.