Bo Leuf had the following on his Wiki for Monday, July 4th:

How can you tell when an area of research is slightly dodgy? Well, one rule of thumb is when the threshold for disproving a claim in the field is higher than the threshold for publishing the claim.

Such a state may be transient -- most sciences have gone through times of speculative upheaval. Unfortunately, some fields of study never seem to reach any sort of firm ground. Often this state of affairs is because the researchers are too busy proposing and fighting for particular views instead of finding out all the facts.

The last sentence is the best summary I've seen of Creation "Science", including its current manifestation (Intelligent Design) that attempts to subvert the establishment clause. The Global Warming hysteria also seems to be in the same state of instability.