>>12870548Well some of them clearly use data collection, experimentation and statistical inference (the scientific method) so those are science. Others don't and aren't science. Economics, linguistics, anthropology, sociology, and psychology are all sciences by definition (regardless of whether or not that hurts your feelings). But they aren't natural sciences. They're human ones.
There is merit to the notion that natural sciences are more rigorous than human ones, because human phenomena are far more complicated and layared, hence our models for human phenomena are rougher and less precise. But the same could be said for a lot of phenomena in, say, ecology (though definitely not to the same degree of imprecision).
