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Well, I would say social sciences arent exact, economics might be a hard science of rules, but the outcomes are subject to too many factors to predict precisely, but it is still a science. Though, well, I am not really qualified to speak on such things, but I would imagine we are fairly precise in the field you guys are talking about.

Economics is a social science, the study of how people interact with things of value. It cannot be hard, since it has a feedback loop.

Thats kind of what I said, the rules are hard, supply and demand, time preference, marginal utility, those are forces that cant be argued with, but it doesnt mean they have precise predictive power.

bashing on "big science" seems to be the latest and greatest of the crapflood that is social media today

i saw a video addressing it the other day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xglo2n2AMGc

Sometimes science is more art than science. A lot of people don't get that.