You can read over a hundred years of extensive, exhaustive criticism of most social "sciences" for exactly that reason, and many of us grew up with a categorical understanding of a difference between "hard" material sciences like physics and chemistry and "soft" sciences like social sciences and many subdomains of biology and medicine.
But that distinction has largely fallen out of the zeitgeist and many people now just take anything ever published in a "scientific journal" as sound.
It represents a huge regression in scientific literacy among the public and sets us up for people becoming increasingly skeptical of "hard science" conclusions because so much of what they've incorrectly come to accept as science never really was.
But that distinction has largely fallen out of the zeitgeist and many people now just take anything ever published in a "scientific journal" as sound.
It represents a huge regression in scientific literacy among the public and sets us up for people becoming increasingly skeptical of "hard science" conclusions because so much of what they've incorrectly come to accept as science never really was.