I'm not an economist, but to me it looks like academic economists are turning more and more to validating their theories with data. As a field, it looks like it

I'm not an economist, but to me it looks like academic economists are turning more and more to validating their theories with data. As a field, it looks like its shifting towards greater empiricism. This is likely due to the deluge of data available that previous generations of economists didn't have access to. So that makes me curious, what aspects of economics seems fraudulent in your opinion?