I agree. That's why co-opting science as the framework through which all things should be evaluated was so destructive.

Science only really works in very specific fields of inquiry. Beyond those the scientific method, which is what makes science such a powerful tool, doesn't work.

But the connection has already been made. The bait and switch has been accepted at every level of society. To deny a study in, for example, sociology, is the same as denying gravity. The explanatory power of what is now considered science has decreased, but we still act like it's pure rigor and scientific method.