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i will stab the next person who tells me that there are hard and soft sciences and the distinction is whether you can empirically verify propositions. every scientific field has some degree of unfalsifiability lurking within it. i may or may not just be bitter because my degree is in linguistics which is supposedly a soft science, and so many STEM-bros do not realise that we too have experimentally verifiable propositions. it’s easier to prove various facts about language development than it is to prove your pharmaceutical works
oh i’m sorry, we can’t prove proto-indo-european existed? you can’t prove the big bang happened either. a theory is a hypothesis you’re 90% sure of
likewise, while i am firmly convinced a lot of economists are full of shit, surely the law of supply and demand is verifiable