Huh, how interesting. My reaction to reading the definition of network science was that this didn't sound like a genuine thing you could study at all. No surpri

Huh, how interesting. My reaction to reading the definition of network science was that this didn't sound like a genuine thing you could study at all. No surprise that it turned out you couldn't. It's also quite intriguing that the originators of this claim came from physics. It seems like quite a few bad ideas in recent years trace back to people who left physics. Neil Ferguson studied physics before switching to epidemiology. Perhaps the general level of rigor required in modern physics pushes out the wooly thinkers and they end up undermining other fields instead.