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You're joking right? You're proving the article's point. The social sciences have informed policymakers for decades. The US was founded by social scientists (as
by aruss 6y ago
You're joking right? You're proving the article's point. The social sciences have informed policymakers for decades. The US was founded by social scientists (as TFA defines them, the social sciences include philosophy and so on).
- Nasrudith 6y agoIsn't that more worthy of damnation than praise? Superpredator broken windows, and all other sorts of convenient bullshit. Now policymakers are all about very selective hearing for demagoguery to be fair. We know this well enough because the absolute dumbasses still think cryptography backdoors are a good idea in spite of every credible expert screaming at them for decades "No you fucking morons! It would weaken our own security while not even helping for actual bad actors!"
- aruss 6y agoDefinitely, social sciences have gotten a lot of things wrong. And the pipeline from science (social or otherwise) to policy is pretty broken, to put it mildly. Isn't it all that much more important that computer science absorbs that history, so as not to make the same missteps?
- bassman9000 6y agoAh, well, if TFA defines the Founders as social scientists, then I can call today's AR-15 a muskeet. Precisely one of the issues of today social sciences is the absolute perversion of language (on purpose). You can make everything a social science with a bit of imagination.
- aruss 6y agoIsn't this just being pedantic? How is TFA's point changed by substituting "social sciences and other humanities" for "social science"?
- dragonwriter 6y ago“Social sciences and other humanities” would add an additional problem because social sciences aren't humanities.