Seeing the lack of rebuttals, I think he just created this thread as a sandbox for us for all the bitching.
Genius move, haha
moral sciences
Oxymoron. The guy who invented the term "Social science" should have had his arse kicked all the way down the road and back.
Social science is real science.
Experiments follows the scientific method, they ARE falsifiable, they are quantifiable, they can be empirical, and they are peer reviewed.
It also relies on observation, and there are a very eclectic range of subdisciplines.
Social Psychology and Behavioral Economics are my favorite because of their counterintuitive discoveries, and I exploit them effectively to push sales every day, to influence people and to seduce women.
Please, don't ridicule things simply because you don't understand. You'll end up ridiculing yourself.
be real science, but as currently practiced it is not. In social science everything is related to everything else, so you know the null hypothesis of "not related" or "A has no effect on B" is false to begin with. I'm sure there is some good work out there so please show me a paper that attempts to falsify a real prediction similar to "the speed of light is between 298,000,000 and 300,000,000 meters per second".
This is similar to TA. To judge a particular method's effectiveness people need to make predictions of "the price will be within this range at this time and date".