> 1. Real science that demonstrably works now. One of the things I noticed in college is that the classes I took in this category never actually taught "the sc

> 1. Real science that demonstrably works now. One of the things I noticed in college is that the classes I took in this category never actually taught "the scientific method." It was only ever in the so-called "soft" sciences that we got the scientific method lecture about creating a hypothesis, doing some tests to verify, checking results, etc.—usually in the first week. So maybe a way to identify classes still in your category "2" is to see if they explicitly teach the scientific method or not. If they do? Category 2. If they're obviously scientific and don't teach it? Category 1. (I've also noticed that an easy way to identify a crackpot on the Internet is to see if they trot out the scientific method discussion in the first 1000 words. If they do? Crackpot.)