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A Biologist And A Psychologist Square Off Over The Definition Of Science

Is psychology a science?  Increasingly, the respect of science (and scientists) by the public has been dropping and a part of that reason is because the line of what science is has become fuzzy. If economics calls itself science, well, the public knows they don't know what they are talking about, so maybe it applies to climate science too. Is sociology science?  What about parapsychology?If the definition of science becomes relative, then so does acceptance of science, in a slippery slope world, so we can't expect people will accept FDA...

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Published By: Science 2.0 - Tuesday, 17 July, 2012

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