Statistical science is not pure science, since it has watered down rules, for falsification. The weather man or weather woman can get it wrong, time and time again, using the results of statistical based weather science, but they will still have a job. Rational theory does not have that watered down luxury of getting self falsification ignored.
When cold fusion was thought to have been demonstrated a decade or so ago, other labs tested the theory and nobody could reproduce it. Since that time, the claim is now considered refuted. The weather man using statistical science can get it wrong day after day, and even falsify their own claims; bad call, but nothing happens. Why the dual standard with one so tough, and the other so soft?
If Cold Fusion had used a statistical black box game and said they have beat the odds, which were like winning the lottery or finding like in there galaxy, that unique day, they may have got a prize. Instead they were trying to stay casual, so this if this did happen, it could be rationally scaled into the energy industry. Rational gets less mercy or less benefit of the doubt.
This soft approach, allows politics to enter the science arena, and endorse what is allowed to linger, even if falsified. I do not think it is right that one aspects of science gets to over ride its own self falsification. The early models of global warming were always too high. Yet the theory lingered, due to the casino math pass, even after the annual self falsification. Like the weather man, people sweep falsification under the rug, and watch it again.
Medical Science is the same way. Blanket statements can be made about behavior and health; black box studies. These may be true for some, but one can also find exceptions that can falsify any global theories. Yet this science remains, because it is connected to a black box and the whims of the gods.
This is not the fault of science, since they have lab coats. It is the fault of the interceding gods of dice and cards. There is a religious element to this version of science, based on faith in faceless and formless gods, not called gods, who make rational and accountable theory, next to impossible. This area of science needs slack, since it not the fault of science but of the whims of the faceless gods who are not called gods.
I do not trust science that can buffer itself from falsification. This allows poor and incomplete theory to linger and then become sold as rational science by politicians.
Say the many religion started to use statistical studies, to make it harder to falsify religion. They can use the whims of the faceless gods, who are not called gods, of the black box, to add uncertainty that then has to be forgiven. The mistake that religion makes is it tries to be rational with its foundation premises, and not take the easy road that dice and cards have to offer. Evolution uses uncertainty, so falsification does not apply.