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As I talk to MIT science types off the record, they admit that there's a lot of bad science out there, and for much of the reason in this comic strip: producing useless science is easier than establishing causality. Especially in any discipline that studies people in uncontrolled environments (like real life)

This just reinforces the point that I've made before, which is that science is a human activity, and therefore subject to human error, sin, pride, and other foibles.

That's not anti-science, but it's anti-scientism, the idea that 'what scientists say' = truth & rationality. (Scientists who are atheists tend to adhere to scientism, despite all evidence it is false.)