I don't agree with the idea that people, and society,
are completely impermeable to analysis.
Nice strawman - I never said that.
This is just like medicine: You can theorize all you want, but in the end only a clinical trial shows you if your plans actually work. The subject is too complex. All you can do with your models is use them as input into the trials. If you skip trials you will get disaster and failure on an unsafe scale.
And good luck designing experiments around, say,
national healthcare policy
If you don't you will still run a trial - only that your trial is a very large population. Good luck with that.
This is just like medicine: You can theorize all you want, but in the end only a clinical trial shows you if your plans actually work. The subject is too complex. All you can do with your models is use them as input into the trials. If you skip trials you will get disaster and failure on an unsafe scale.
If you don't you will still run a trial - only that your trial is a very large population. Good luck with that.