The statement about economics rings true. When I think of science, I think of models that accurately and precisely reflect reality. That is, a tested and valida

The statement about economics rings true. When I think of science, I think of models that accurately and precisely reflect reality. That is, a tested and validated model should be predictive and consistent. I have no trust for 'sciences' that cannot tell me precisely and accurately what the effect of an action will be. If the author's of the paper could tell me that an implementation of policy X would yield an effect of Y within an error of Z, within a certain timeframe then I'd have at least a small degree of trust. But, even then, they'd have to also specify metrics to track so that an observer could validate that the effect is 'on course'.