Hard Corps Revised Edition

Lubos Motl looks at "hard science" vs. "soft science" and sees (surprise! surprise!) black hats versus white. This requires a little tinkering with the usual definitions where the hard sciences got their obduracy from being able to make calculations and measurements which could be rigorously compared, like physics, astronomy, chemistry, and some parts of geophysics. Soft sciences, by contrast, were charactrized by difficulty in making meaningful calculations that could be compared to measurements, as in sociology, parts of biology, and string theory.

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