I don't really have a horse in this race but you're basically denying the ability of science to have anything to say outside of the hard sciences, which I disag

I don't really have a horse in this race but you're basically denying the ability of science to have anything to say outside of the hard sciences, which I disagree strongly with. "Can't be used to make predictions"... seriously? These factors can be used to make predictions. Now whether these things are just correlates with other more fundamental factors, or causal - I thought that was where the conflict was. https://xkcd.com/435 https://xkcd.com/435