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Economic "science"
(europe.pub)
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I feel like this is incredibly misleading to clip out of the abstract when just above it we have:
To clip the quote just after the statement "on the other hand" to give the definitive conclusion of the paper is pretty wack. Like the paper is literally titled “Positive” Results Increase Down the Hierarchy of the Sciences
Further I think this meme isn't about the fact that it's literally impossible to do economics, or that there is nothing worth studying in markets. More that the orthodoxy and biases of economics muddy the field to the point of dishonesty, shown here as being 5 times more likely to be right when you can massage the factors compared to telescope data.
Yes, it's very disingenuous to take the quote the abstract concludes on which plainly supports the social sciences as true scientific fields, contrary to what the OP implies through scare quotes.
By the way, here's the full chart since you're so worried about taking things "out of context":
I guess economics is just a more robust field of science than biochem, pharmacology, clinical medicine, materials science, and psych, because that's totally what the data means. I am very smart(TM).
You're bring a lot of energy that suggest to me this is a particular bone you have to pick. I agree econ can be a science. Sadly this meme doesn't dive into the sociological foundations that validate the possibility of a hypothetical world where econ is done properly and can become a science along side other social sciences; choosing instead to just critique the absurdity of economics as it is currently exists.
I think there are other issues with the paper that make me hesitant to take it's conclusions at face value.