Friedrich Hayek warned about just this in "The Counter-Revoluion of Science" wherein he decried the impulse to reduce behavior to mechanical impulses, and the s

Friedrich Hayek warned about just this in "The Counter-Revoluion of Science" wherein he decried the impulse to reduce behavior to mechanical impulses, and the subsequent rise of sociology as being considered a hard science. One isn't going to engineer societies without bending the scientific method way beyond what it stands for or merits, no matter the PR methods applied.