[CarbineCaleb]

I will be the first to admit that statistics can be misused/misunderstood by the careless or dishonest. Having said that, there is very little that happens in science/medicine/engineering without some involvement of statistics, and as often as not, the involvement is pivotal to either discovering a phenomenon or pinning it down.

And I am not a statistician by academic department - so that's not the voice of "promote your core discipline"... my degrees all came from chemistry departments. Even coming up as a student though, I was active in other useful fields - that's where all the good stuff happens, is at the interface between fields.