Science involves sorting our specious correlations from causal relations. Criticize the specifics, not the general approach. Gee, I thought I was talking about sorting specious correlations from causal relations. What methods are you talking about. This is way too glib for me to understand.
Modern medicine is just as pragmatic as ancient medicine.
Not even doctors claim that medicine is a science anymore, particularly when they have had to prove it on witness stands in malpractice suits. The subject is a scientific demostration of genetic causation of the relationship between race and intelligence. If you make the claim or state the hypothesis or imply that you are stating such an hypothesis, then you have to prove it. I am not at all concerned with the proofs that modern medicine demands. That seems to be changing in any case, given legal liability for not knowing what the hell they're doing and doing it anyway.