Zimbardos can't be trusted on his own. His Prison experment he took an active roll in as the warden of the prison, he commanded the "guards" to how to treat prisoners and also to target certain prisoners to more abuse then others, and others to treat them nicely. For the "experiment" to have any validity he needed to be a neutral observer which he was not.
Admittedly my distrust/distaste for Zimbardos is the fact that my college psych class professor only taught via out of date VHS recordings from like the 80s that had him as the host.
Anyone who's done STEM can tell you the social sciences are objectively bullshit.
I spent most of my time as a polisci major in college before moving on to Comp Sci, Social Sciences have their place, and people with actual polisci backgrounds (read not people who just take "Why communism is great 070" bullshit classes) is badly needed right now. If more people understood how politics of their country worked, AOC would have been blasted every fucking time she opened her fucking mouth. Everytime I hear AOC speak all I can think is "That is not how it fucking works you bitch".
The issue of social sciences even when done properly is that they at their core study humans in a non lets call it objective stance. Humans as individuals and as groups have a habit of saying "Hold my beer", even when you base your theories on past events and how people acted there is always the wild card of human nature. As one of my profs put it "You work hard on your theory on the German political system, you study its history, the philosophies that founded/guided it though the years, you gather tons of data on how people voted, and writings to suggest why, you think you have it all mastered then BOOM Hitler"
It was meant to describe how human nature is, but I strongly believe it also shows that polisci is better at looking at past events and deciphering what happened and why, as current issues can be dynamic and its easy to miss driving factors that pull things in ways you don't expect. As an example, 2016, I was expecting HRC to win, based on how hard the media was pushing her, and how much vocal support she got on media/the internet/et al (but I did note a true lack of "on the street support", along with how the DNC was corrupt, along with her political history and being essicentally an unofficial incumbent. Trump's win surprised me due to all the normal signs being wrong.
That said there are general useful things from polisci like 1) most incumbents will win an election and 2) the newest generation of voters always have the lowest turn out compared to the older generations. So although Bernie appealed massively to millennials (and older gen z), he was mostly doomed based on the major group he appealed to (That isn't to say the DNC wasn't cheating the system also).
Social Sciences are actually quite useful. And no, I don't mean "Gender Studies" or something like that. Pyschology, political science, sociology all uncover and root through what makes up humanity. Things which can't be tested and quantified as readily or easily as the STEM degrees.
Edit: Also, ironic that someone would invoke IQ, then say the social sciences are bullshit. IQ.... comes from the social sciences. Its a product of them.
The problem is you guys have no fucking standards regarding proof and inject your bullshit unfounded beliefs into fields that belong in the domain of the hard sciences, like genetics.
I am not saying PoliSci or any other soft science is on the same level of hard science, hell when I was in college, most of the profs would even admit that we are not as hard as we want to be in terms of evidence/support, no one I knew who was actually interested in polisci (again not political/commie plants) would never imagine to say "My word/theory/etc is as sound as the laws of basic physics".