We know in science that sometimes scientific results for analyses based largely on suppositions regress toward the mean, and this effect is stronger when presti

We know in science that sometimes scientific results for analyses based largely on suppositions regress toward the mean, and this effect is stronger when prestige or politics are on the line. This is called "ideological hegemony" and it reproduces itself in the halls of power because those who occupy those halls are all funneled through the same conditioning programs. I'm not sure what to say further other than "I guess we're going to have to find a way to be comfortable never knowing". The analyses are compromised because the topic is too charged now. Too much is at stake based on one or another direction to trust any conclusions.