All of what you wrote is true too, but it’s also the hollowed out support beam at bottom of “evidence-based everything” culture, which has taken over almost everything.
The truth is that good science is slow and that most “evidence-based” practices are referring to a huge, nebulous cloud of bad results and weak suggestions rather than the evidence that supposedly gives them authority over traditional or intuitive practices.
Scientists participate on “Little Science” and the responsible ones often maintain the perspective that you’re describing here.
But modern society has built itself around the institution of “Big Science” which is structurally forced to assert truths before they can responsibly be defended.
It’s way bigger than the general public being curious or the media wanting to get eyeballs — it’s everything going on in government, economics, medicine, psychology, agriculture, etc etc etc
It’s a house of cards and you’ve just summarized what the core problem is.
The truth is that good science is slow and that most “evidence-based” practices are referring to a huge, nebulous cloud of bad results and weak suggestions rather than the evidence that supposedly gives them authority over traditional or intuitive practices.
Scientists participate on “Little Science” and the responsible ones often maintain the perspective that you’re describing here.
But modern society has built itself around the institution of “Big Science” which is structurally forced to assert truths before they can responsibly be defended.
It’s way bigger than the general public being curious or the media wanting to get eyeballs — it’s everything going on in government, economics, medicine, psychology, agriculture, etc etc etc
It’s a house of cards and you’ve just summarized what the core problem is.