Same happened before with chemestry / alchemy and astronomy / astrology - there were alchemists that were trying to please their king with promises of gold out

Same happened before with chemestry / alchemy and astronomy / astrology - there were alchemists that were trying to please their king with promises of gold out of nothing or horoscopes, and there were scientists, that used it as a source of funding for their real research. Chemistry and Astronomy won, unfortunately our economic alchemy refuses to die.