Richard Feynman on "Social Sciences"

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""because of the success of science there is a kind of pseudo science - social science is an example of a science which is not a science - they don't do science, they follow the forms, gather data, do so and so - but they don't get any laws, they haven't found anything - they haven't got anywhere yet, maybe someday - what happens is, on an even more mundane level, we get experts on everything that sound like they;re sort of scientific experts - they're not scientific, they sit at a typewriter and make up something like 'food grown with fertilizer that's organic is better for you' - it may be true, maybe not, but it hasn't been demonstrated - i have the advantage of having found out how hard it is to get to really know something, how careful you have to check the experiments, how easy it is to make mistakes and fool yourself - i have a great suspicion that they don't know, they're intimidating people"
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