Yep, science is a meme. It's just the new religion now, mostly spouted by idiots who have no idea what they're reading, believing whatever they hear from their pastors("experts") without understanding a single thing about it.
As for scientists themselves, they are mostly underfunded and, but this is more a problem with non "hard" sciences. Those are the ones that are really easy to bullshit. You'd be wise never to believe anything about social sciences or psychology.
If you've ever been in a lab this bullshit will not surprise you, people are awful and statisticians are worse.
it funds its operation by selling the journal, aka capitalism
and journals sell better when they contain mind-blowing results
so journals are more likely to refuse you if your conclusion isn't something cool and epic
Everyone knows psychology is a joke, but let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater. Chemistry, physics, neurology, etc. are all still reliable sciences.
I thought neurology was fairly new and therefore not all that reliable.
human brain might have reached its capacity of figuring shit out so many scientists probably just make shit up these days
>Chemistry, physics, neurology, etc. are all still reliable sciences.
Citation needed
Neurology definitely has a long way to go, but from what I've read they usually do a good job of taking that into account in their studies. They don't claim to have figured out depression or whatever, mostly just "we did X and saw increased activity in section Y." As such, neurology experiments aren't exactly groundbreaking, but also not false.
The reliability of science is directly proportional to it's hardness (i.e. use of math). Physics is the most reliable science due to it's intense mathematical rigor, and chemistry comes in second. I agree with you on neurology though.
science isn't the be all end all of the universe. science isn't a meme but it's not 100 percent right.