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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
We're learning more and more about the mind and human behaviour, with real science and empirical data to back it up.
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The gulf between the deeply politicized social sciences and genuine science is getting wider and wider. Much of the content taught in sociology, etc is as arcane and woolly as traditional religion.
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I would call bull#### on this. While I do find there is a lot of junk research going on, I don't think it is is any different in the social sciences from any of the other schools of scientific inquiry. The requirement to publish drives scientists from all schools to produce, and some of the stuff is pretty sketchy. Oh, and if you believe that the social sciences are a monoculture, try walking into any of the sciences departments and observe them. They are no different. Why? Because they all are trained to think about their subject matter in very specific ways and are from the same school of thought with the same interest. They are who they have been trained to be and who they wanted to be. This isn't news to anyone who spends five minutes on a campus.