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I think the problem is that people chronically underestimate how hard good science is.

Professors get this wrong all the time, despite being some of the smartest people we have around, despite decades of experience and education, despite a career and reputation on the line, and despite a system of peer review to catch mistakes before they get published.

Designing experiments is really difficult.

Interpreting experiments is difficult and unintuitive.

Statistics is difficult. You can't just look at whether the number went up. You need to have a deep understanding of significance, power and effect size, you should probably be doing ANOVA or some such.