This is pretty disingenuous. Oster's book(s) is tantamount to long-form data journalism, principally citing research to criticize confidence in certain notions

This is pretty disingenuous. Oster's book(s) is tantamount to long-form data journalism, principally citing research to criticize confidence in certain notions rather than arguing for overconfidence in another. Much like nutrition and sociology, research can be politically fraught, have lots of data points, etc. But that's neither here nor there, either research is high quality or it isn't, including in the domain of economy.