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Science exists within social systems. Science is not in itself a social system. There's a big difference. Social systems can be based on nonsense. Science is based on empirical evidence, peer review, reproducibility, and technology.

Science is rigorous and testable and reproducible. A social system is just a sociologist's attempt at finding patterns amongst groups and using those patterns to build some explanatory framework. Science is a lot more than that.