They produce results that work, even for people that don’t want to believe them. At least, in most parts of the hard sciences—I don’t know about the depths of string theory or cosmology.
Can’t find the link offhand, but there’s some interesting metaanalysis of medical-scientific journals and a few other fields that strongly suggests even the hard sciences in general aren’t immune to this.
They produce results that work, even for people that don’t want to believe them. At least, in most parts of the hard sciences—I don’t know about the depths of string theory or cosmology.
Can’t find the link offhand, but there’s some interesting metaanalysis of medical-scientific journals and a few other fields that strongly suggests even the hard sciences in general aren’t immune to this.