And “science” devolved to a reliance on modeling which allowed all sorts of shenanigans to take place mostly in the quest for grant money. It will not regain its reputation as a respectable academic structure until it regroups around the discipline of Scientific Method which seems to have lost its way in current day academia.
Modeling touted as hard science is one of my pet peeves. I tell people that will listen that models are virtually always wrong and its just a question of how wrong. And most people put far too much faith that model accuracy is high without understanding the modeling process.