I don't know what to believe anymore. Do people conduct research to suit their own ulterior purposes in the social sciences? It seems like there are so many different and mutually exclusive views of sociology, psychology, economics, etc, all "backed up" by their own encyclopedia of peer-reviewed research papers and talking heads. The potential problems are obvious: the impossibility of a deterministic model from which to test humans, and the susceptibility of statistics (which is supposed to alleviate the first problem) to misuse or selective use leading to (potentially even unconscious or good-intentioned) misleading conclusions. I wish the world was math, logic, or computer science, anons.

Does this make social sciences totally useless? Or might we stumble upon threads of truth in spite of it all? What do you think of the social "sciences"?