It gets much worse when you add a normative element into your model, when you get to call some things, "efficient" or "healthful," or "normal," or "insane." There is also a serious question as to whether this false certainty is preferable to the vague unfalsifiability of even softer social sciences. But I shall save these subjects for future posts.

I will not engage with your core thesis but I give a plus one for this excerpt. A problem I see with experts at times is the tendency to say explicitly or convey implicitly that the world should be a nail.