(You're only allowed to be honest if the SJW warriors don't happen to notice that what your doing makes them look bad or contradicts their dogma.)
Economics is considered a social science - and that’s where a lot of the mess is. In the current instance, we were discussing ‘harder’ sciences.
As I wrote, there’s a lot of freaky stuff going on in Universities. That doesn’t mean that there are not a lot of solid scientists doing honest work - which is the point I was making against dsc’s statement that ‘every research lab is rotten to the core’.