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I'm really sick of this idea that "some other method" picks up where science leaves off. Either these other methods can demonstrate actual results, and so they are science, or they do not, so they are worthless.

Science is simply an umbrella term for a logical application of reason and evidence, to build models. It's not some fixed set of tools. If it works, and can be shown to work, it's science, basically. Abandoning science is throwing away all your tools, when discussing facts about reality.

History is of course a softer science, and the best that can be done is to estimate probabilities. But we start with what we have already learned about reality.