True, and a lot of it is fraud or not far. However, a big chunk of this statistic is not actually fraud. It's just false empiricism. If you look at a lot of th

True, and a lot of it is fraud or not far. However, a big chunk of this statistic is not actually fraud. It's just false empiricism. If you look at a lot of the actual papers, I think you'll find that a lot of them just aren't trying to do empiricism... at least not strict empiricism. They're forced into that structure by a convention. Either (1) "Not Science" becomes OK and extends to economics, some areas of ecology, and such. (2) The Scientific Method gets renamed "Method A," and the concept of scientific pursuit is more flexible, depending on what you are studying or (3) We force these poor bastards doing economics, psychology and such to pretend that they're doing a method that they're not... or publish in the prestigious "Unscientific Economics & Psychology" journal.