Right. Science doesn’t determine truth, it is a way to predict usefulness.
See Thomas Kuhn, “Structure of Scientific Revolutions”.
Throw some Karl Popper and Imre Lakatos also into the arena.
Bailey’s article used the polling of scientists (i.e. consensus) as the standard for getting the science “right”.
The gold standard of correctness of science is Demonstration. What can you show me? Consensus is a political standard. Karl Popper is also kinda leery about calling fields like psychology and economics a science because they have a hard time demonstrating causal relationships. Also, any science worth the paper it is written on needs to be falsifiable.
You can tell an advancing research program by its ability to predict outcomes. You can tell a failing research program by its making excuses for its failures. I will leave it to my fellow Freepers to decide which direction the programs outlined in the article are taking.