Nov 1, 2026 06:33 PM
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EXCERPTS: As a joke, I would tell graduate students in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin that my question would be simple: “Social science is neither social nor science. Discuss.” [...] But whatever the failings of science and scientists, scholars working in the social sciences cannot produce anything like laws and theories. This doesn’t mean social scientists are failures, only that they lack some of the tools of the natural sciences... (MORE - details)
EXCERPTS: As a joke, I would tell graduate students in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin that my question would be simple: “Social science is neither social nor science. Discuss.” [...] But whatever the failings of science and scientists, scholars working in the social sciences cannot produce anything like laws and theories. This doesn’t mean social scientists are failures, only that they lack some of the tools of the natural sciences... (MORE - details)