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Thomas Eshuis wrote:

CdesignProponentsist wrote:Where social science can provide hypothesis, deduce what the necessary implications of that hypothesis would be, then measure or experiment to see if observation matches that, it is science.

So yes, there is plenty of science in social science.

Anybody can have an opinion, Thomas. When you support it with some data, then it might become something more. I don't doubt that you'll try, given a little push.

Poverty is correlated with malnutrition in children. Suicide bombers are frequently influenced by Wahhabist Islamic ideology. Who knew? When you can say how it happens, then you'll have some science. In both cases I cite, the hypothesis turns out to be what you can back out of the data.