Interesting because of the psychological insights into not how all people are, but how people make up theories in general. Same way religion has scientific significance in an anthropological sense.

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca -2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

And how many people are still using Alchemy?

[–] beardown@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago

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[–] explodicle@local106.com 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They told us the history of alchemy in chemistry class, it's good to know the context.

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 0 points 9 months ago

Yes, but no one credible still uses it. Which was the point I was making.

[–] cuerdo@lemmy.world -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The problem is that we still don't have a proper pattern recognition. We could discard all the soft sciences such as Economics, Sociology or Psychology.

[–] psud@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What hard sciences could replace economics and sociology? They're not very rigorous, but they seem to be useful. Psychology also takes some load off psychiatrists

[–] cuerdo@lemmy.world -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Astrology is also useful.

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

So is palm reading; for grifters.