Falsifiability is not a political cult bugbear. There are very good reasons to pursue it that you can't just handwave away like that, IMO. The psychology and e

Falsifiability is not a political cult bugbear. There are very good reasons to pursue it that you can't just handwave away like that, IMO. The psychology and economics examples are very ironic to me as I see the main issue with the effectiveness of those fields being precisely the lack of falsifiable results in their research. Its prone to a large body of bogus theories being used to the detriment of the field.