Seriously, science is provisional. If you think a scientific conclusion is wrong, get to work! ;-)
I'm sorry, but this statement makes it clear that you do not understand the state of sociology within academia at the moment. Journals do not look for good papers, they look for papers that fit the narrative they want to push. This is why the Sokal Squared Hoax was possible. While hoax papers can make it into any field, sociology has the worst ability to discern hoax from legitimate and is the only field to give an award to a hoax paper.
In the 2018 paper "The Social and Political Views of American Professors" we see that 43% of academics in the social sciences and humanities self identify as marxists, radical leftists or left-wing activists. Only 3-5% identified themselves as conservative. This is a drastic change from 60 years ago. In the late 60's a study was conducted that was published in the 1975 book "The Divided Academy". The conclusions from this book, 46% of professors described themselves as liberal, 27% described themselves as moderates, and 28% described themselves as conservative.
I want you to look at this. In the 60's it was 46% that identified themselves as being on the left at all, now it is almost that amount (43%) that identify themselves as far-left. There is a large political bias within the field.
The 2020 paper "A Model of Political Bias in Social Science Research" points out how the left-wing bias in the field can influence bias in not only what theories and papers are accepted, but in what questions even get asked, and even in how likely conservatives are to actually pursue a degree in the field. Essentially, the political bias of the field has infected it so much so that certain questions cannot even be asked, let alone any hope of papers that disagree with the political narrative finding publication on anything close to the same level as those that fall in-line with the narrative. This bias has also lead to what a number of surveys, cited by the paper, point out, that conservative students report greater experiences of hostility from instructors than liberal students, so much so that even liberal students have stated that "conservative and religious students are the disproportionate recipients of hostility from university faculty" when asked.
I could go on and on, but the point is that the field of sociology has become so politicized that it isn't an objective field anymore. No one should be surprised about this considering the papers on "fat studies" that are coming out that are in direct conflict with the understanding by the hard sciences yet are accepted and are increasingly part of the mainstream of sociology.
You say that if the field is wrong that we should "get to work", but without a massive change forced upon the field such a thing is almost certainly impossible, and not because the conclusion is sound. The field is not objective, they are one of the most politically biased fields out there, they have the worst track record at preventing hoax papers (and even have given one an award), etc. You do not understand what is going on within the field of sociology and instead are just treating it the same as any other field when it isn't comparable.
