system
A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
Social 'Science' and partisan conclusion seeking should not drive academic study. It does however, and there exists an entire mill of 'peer' research that is very poor and used by those with a particular agenda to claim the science is behind their claims.

My guess is it's because of how grants are favored to partisan hypothesis. There are people/interest groups out there, with lots of money, that want something to be true so bad they are willing to drop millions to discredit entire branches of scientific study (gender biology for example) so that they can justify their pride.
gpt
This is what science has always been. You researched what your patrons wanted you to do. Research has historically fell in 3 categories.

1. Science funded for war
2. Science funded by wealthy patrons
3. Science pursued for knowledge

Not surprisingly, the 3rd category has always had issues getting funding.