For some human activities there are problems simply too complicated to be handled by science, mostly because it is very hard to build a rigorous and viable meth

For some human activities there are problems simply too complicated to be handled by science, mostly because it is very hard to build a rigorous and viable methodology to investigate the problem. If these areas are important and profitable you end up with an industry of pundits giving opinions "supported" by rhetoric rather than an evidence impossible to gather. Politics is the most obvious example, with its nauseating abundance of Glen Becks, Rush Limbaughs and Michael Moores. Stock market "analysts", self help gurus, psychic card readers, soothsayers are the more common varieties. "Uncle Bob" (Clean Code's author) is the equivalent to those in the Software Engineering field, a snake oil seller that will give you the placebo that promises to fix problems that sometimes don't even exist or are of small relevance.