Research is far better than a random claim making machine even if some of it has errors that have caused the replication crisis. It's easy to overstate the leve

Research is far better than a random claim making machine even if some of it has errors that have caused the replication crisis. It's easy to overstate the level of the problem even though it's fairly severe at this point. "Wet pavements cause umbrella usage" is something where I'd want to see your specific examples because it's easy to get a correlational study of that nature but very hard to design a causal one. The correlational studies are usually accurate and often useful for other research.