That is the exact opposite of the problem here. (Cultural) Anthropology doesn’t want to be a science and its professional association doesn’t support people who

That is the exact opposite of the problem here. (Cultural) Anthropology doesn’t want to be a science and its professional association doesn’t support people who do. Political Scientists and Economists do their best with very messy data and extremely limited ability to do experiments to do science, and sociology researchers mostly do the same though there is a greater continent of “scholar-activists” and faculty outside research universities have lots of plain activists with Ph.D.s. Archaeologists, linguists, physical and biological anthropologists and a tiny minority of cultural anthropologists try to develop true, new knowledge about the world. They’re scientists as much as epidemiologists, geologists, cosmologists or anyone else who has lots of data, makes predictions and has a theory that can be falsified. Social science is science, and anthropology can be too. Not everything is physics or chemistry.