@farmerman,
Sociology, anthropology, psychology, military strategy, economics, architecture etc etc.
It is a myth perped by the priesthood of advertising that we get TV for free when in fact they are levying a hidden tax on every item we buy and are telling lies with every ad they make.
The technology exists for us to pay directly for every broadcast we wish to watch. Big fights are about £15 here.
You're just fighting a turf war. The logic of your argument is that many university departments should be abolished. As well as all state ceremonial for which a vast range of priesthoods exist.
What's the difference between disposing of the corpse of a hobo and that of a president or a fallen warrior. It is certainly not scientific unless you allow for the sciences of human behaviour.
Why is it posher to lay out a Thanksgiving dinner table than to eat a meat and potato pie walking down the street. They are both methods of chomping through the nutrient bed from a scientific point of view. The latter being much more efficient although I will admit that if you are habituated to just chomping the former and leaving the efficiency to the menials you might not appreciate the difference.
A modern go-getting trend setter would buy Thansgiving meat and potato pies and have no time for all that bullshit with doilies and napkins with lingerie style edgings and ******* wives.
Have you no experience of scientists during their leisure time which most of them have a great deal of? I have. A great deal. Too much for my own good.
One might measure scientific integrity by amounts of leisure time. True scientists don't do leisure time. Some of them have made efforts to reduce sleeping hours. Soylent is a drinkable nutrient composite which is promoted specifically to reduce chomping time for those dedicated to their work.
So there's your Thanksgiving dinner done to perfection you silly moocow. It's a quaint religious ceremonial which is fortunately depravity neutral. Up to a point I mean. Not looking into it too deeply. I reserve that for my own amusement.