Comment by mettamage

Hot take, haven't thought about it enough, so more of a brainstorm comment.

The real self-correcting mechanism of science is engineering. Whatever we're capable of engineering will be tested again and again and again and again. This includes social sciences. Look at the most successful marketeers and most successful game-designers and there must be some form of science there that'll actually be relevant. Though, there is survivorship bias, not sure how to take that out yet, but even with survivorship bias: seeing certain trends happen in MMOs or seeing how discount pricing (e.g. now for $499!) exploits human biases. Those things get replicated way more.

Oh and then there's stuff like: buildings standing upright and rockets shot into space (or explode into our faces).