I'm somewhat flattered that you think that the man on the street might count economics among the "sciences", because from my experience laymen are already prett

I'm somewhat flattered that you think that the man on the street might count economics among the "sciences", because from my experience laymen are already pretty skeptic when it comes to economics. Psychology too, though to a lesser degree. In fact, it seems that so long as the subject in question isn't completely opaque to them, they might be tempted to generalize from limited experiences and will start holding strong opinions of their own despite whatever it is that experts say. Which I think can be fine, specially if the experts don't have a great track record (e.g. economics and psychology). But it can also get absurd pretty quickly, like when people point out some huge snowstorm in their town in response to "global warming", as if that proves anything.