[Serious] Generally speaking, is philosophy a worthwhile subject of study?

[John 6IX Breezy]

Some say this has led to a crisis of reproducibility, with not enough people willing to do the unglamorous work of falsification.

Right, it's as if there are two sciences. There's the romanticized and idealized science. And then there's the science that scientists actually do. The replication crisis is an example of that. People think scientists sit around replicating each other's results. But the crisis, ironically, only emerged because somebody finally started to replicate something.

It's a hard pitch to make to whoever is sponsoring your research: "Hey, I'm going to do exactly what this other person did in their research, and by the way I want you to pay me for it."