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0 pointsconfidantlake6y ago0 comments

Agreed, but in my personal view social sciences are not really sciences at all. They have a largely ideological component. I expect there to be disagreements there. On the other hand denying hard sciences seems much worse.

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zozbot2346y ago

> Agreed, but in my personal view social sciences are not really sciences at all.

That's quite wrong. Even as we speak, hundreds of millions of people are being lifted out of poverty, thanks in no small part to the gradual adoption of saner policies based in the social sciences. That's not "ideology", it's real results.

confidantlakeOP6y ago

Agree, I am having trouble expressing my thoughts correctly here. Maybe what I mean to say is describing a physical properties of our universe is much simpler than understanding social systems. Therefore these ideas tend to get simplified and you hear things like "communism is good" or "capitalism is good". It becomes more about tribal identity than scientific inquiry.

But I concede that in other instances better policies based on social sciences are helping us tremendously.

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zozbot2346y ago

> Agreed, but in my personal view social sciences are not really sciences at all.

confidantlakeOP6y ago

But I concede that in other instances better policies based on social sciences are helping us tremendously.

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