I like my useless body-composition weight scale.   It gives me numbers and plots with labels describing things I want to know.   The numbers come from computations based on scientific studies.   The numbers have a certainty to them even though I have no idea where this health story will end up.   I am entertained watching the show of my own making.

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://hypothesis-discovery.com/2021/05/25/line-between-science-and-fiction/