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If you get good predictive power out of that position, it is all that counts. If the predictions hold true, it is neither folly nor is it denial. I will tell you a true story - an example of this methodology:
At my former workplace they were conducting an executive search for a "sweep" - SVP, senior vice president. A large office stood empty for many months, and nobody knew who or when would come to occupy it. So, a few months before they found their sweep, I predicted to my coworkers the nameplate they should be putting on that door: I had assumed an exaggerated facial expression of a prophet from bad movies, stared into the future with a hand with outstretched fingers extended towards that empty door, and in a sepulchral voice [I was overplaying it, I'm afraid] pronounced: " I see it... I see it... GREEDY A**HOLE". Well, several months later they found their sweep - and my prediction of what he was turned out to be so correct that a year later they had to squeeze him out.
Now homework for you: explain how that prediction was made possible. Additional information: I was NOT on the sweep search committee, and had no information link from them.

I don't have enough info to answer your question but I sense where it's headed from the exchange we've had.

I put my money on my gut. Attempts to treat humans like molecules lead to gas chambers in the end. Always have, always will.

they may behave like molecules at times, but they are not. You can treat a car like a boat because it will float for a few seconds, but after that, you're sunk.