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you are wrong because you refuse to look at the big picture. you pick an arbitrary point at which science was not as bullshit as today according to your perception (such point is naturally best picked from a time before you were born), and of course you see a worsening trend.
the flawed measurement system you are referring to was invented to try and remedy endemic problems that had existed at the time, which is sufficient evidence of things not being perfect. a grifter would occupy a position and there would be no way to call out his bullshit and sack him without some kind of objective evidence of his output being non-existent or garbage
but look even further back and you will find bullshit research and grift all the way back to the times of robert boyle and francis bacon. the stereotypical 19th century scientist is a boisterous charlatan, that's a perception grounded in reality. spiritism was a legitimate branch of natural sciences for many decades, one of the earliest applications of radio was to listen for ghosts. the history of medical science in particular is 99% actively harmful grift, goethe summarized it nicely in the part where faust talks about his father's track record with iatrochemistry
people have this idea of a triumph of science that was cut short by bureaucracy because of a series of outlier events during the early to middle 20th century, when a series of breakthroughs occurred in fields such as nuclear physics, chemistry, aerodynamics and ballistics. all of which happened OUTSIDE of the framework and infrastructure of published science. in many cases, results were eventually shared through the scientific journals, but they were obtained at military installations with even the identities of the researchers being secret, let alone their work. and the problem of grift and bullshit research was solved by hands-on chaperoning of scientists by security personnel.
so when looking back at the perceived golden age of science, one must remember that those people did not compete for grants, they toiled in a bunker at gunpoint, the management systems are fundamentally different and the present system cannot be analyzed as a result of the other system's deterioration
if you look further back such as the early days of electricity, you will find lots of bullshit and grift, it's just been forgotten for being useless and only the good parts are remembered. and you don't get less bullshit the further back you look, eventually you get to a scientific process that boils down to people trying to sell a projection medicamentum recipe to someone gullible enough and skipping town before the next sunrise. idk if that's better or worse than grant grift, the result is the same