Its a science but its actual experimental data (eg: real science) is a small fraction of the field and relatively new.
Also, much like other humanities sciences.. There's been the alarming discovery that much of what is taken for granted by earlier studies and applied at scale worldwide, is bunk - or at least very flawed. https://theconversation.com/the-replication-crisis-has-engulfed-economics-49202
So you can forgive people for being dismissive.
As long as the devs have an instance-agnostic 'live and let live' attitude and just ignore any instances they don't politically like and advise others to do the same, it's not really a problem.
If they ever try to enforce their ideology via their code: actual issue.