I used to think like that. Soft science = dubious, hard science = ok. Not any more though. Just recently there was LK99 in materials science though, which was p

I used to think like that. Soft science = dubious, hard science = ok. Not any more though. Just recently there was LK99 in materials science though, which was pretty much the textbook definition of an exciting but non-replicable claim. Also a lot of stuff is tough to classify. Are epidemiology or climatology "hard" sciences?