I don’t think anybody is claiming their questions are wrong. It’s the way they answer them. And yes, that applies to mainstream fields, too. In the harder scie

I don’t think anybody is claiming their questions are wrong. It’s the way they answer them. And yes, that applies to mainstream fields, too. In the harder sciences such as psychology, sociology and history (physics is easy because all electrons are identical and repeating experiments is possible, if sometimes impractical) it is extremely hard to draw any conclusions, and there’s pressure to publish strong statements (both externally and from people’s egos). For example, discovering a new dinosaur is better for one’s career than discovering the one thousandth part of a thigh bone of a known one. To make things worse, the popular press version of such papers tend to remove many of the doubts that the ‘real’ papers mention. Non-mainstream publications are worse at that, though, by not mentioning doubts at all, and bending facts.