The comment... > There is no such crisis in experimental physics. ... also seems to completely miss that there is a spectrum from "hard" science to "soft" sci

The comment... > There is no such crisis in experimental physics. ... also seems to completely miss that there is a spectrum from "hard" science to "soft" science (contrary to what many might expect, "soft" sciences are arguably much more difficult to work with), and that physics is the "hardest" (ie.: in many ways "most straightforward", although by this I do not mean to trivialize it at all) natural science there is. You need much more sophisticated statistical techniques & experimental design when you're dealing with complex systems (eg.: society, ecology, psychology, etc) than when you are dealing with simple systems (cue the joke about physicists assuming spherical cows).