[aMorePerfectUnion]

“ something else the scientists modeled”

Science is now computer models…

Think climate change, covid deaths, etc

Just trust science.

[ScubaDiver]

Modeling in the abstract is fine. In fact, it;s a valuable tool in the scientific method. But, until more recently (the last 20-years or so), refutability was a welcomed, necessary element of modeling; scientists build a model on available data points and when hard data comes in, the results can be measured against the modeled outcomes either refuting or validating the model's premise.

Today, if you attempt to measure a model's scientific merit, you're labeled a 'conspiracy theorists.' Or - and more commonly - the prognostic time frame of the model is so distant in the future, refuting or validating the model becomes impossible and instead, the model must be accepted as a matter of faith. In this regard, science has become a kind of religion that has coopted sciencey vernacular.

A favorite axiom of professors of statistics is: All models are wrong, but some can be useful. But, we're not even allow to question models today much less assert their accuracy or impugn their utilitarian value.