Same happened before with chemestry / alchemy and astronomy / astrology - there were alchemists that were trying to please their king with promises of gold out of nothing or horoscopes, and there were scientists, that used it as a source of funding for their real research. Chemistry and Astronomy won, unfortunately our economic alchemy refuses to die.
But of course, with the current financial system it looks as though large financial companies have managed to create wealth out of nothing or horoscopes.
