• exocrinous@startrek.website
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    7 months ago

    What are soft sciences supposed to do when experimental methods are either impractical or unethical?

    Same thing astronomy did.

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      7 months ago

      Astronomy has roughly a 400 year head start on most of these. Thousands of years if you’re counting astrology (which was good observations mixed together with nonsense).