Right, I'm not chalking it up to mysterious psychic powers. What I mean is, it's frustrating in how it demonstrates that our truth-sensing capabilities, and the

Right, I'm not chalking it up to mysterious psychic powers. What I mean is, it's frustrating in how it demonstrates that our truth-sensing capabilities, and the "pure" scientific method, are actually working just fine and we don't need to have any existential panic over whether truth is unknowable even in noisy data. But those capabilities aren't being used when it comes time to actually write the paper, which is exactly when you should be applying them.