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Originally Posted by martamiriam
I would say as a psychiatric social worker( retired) that it is a pseudoscience...so much is not known, not even the drugs...as with medicine and other disciplines there is an ART to it....the only real HARD SCIENCES are physics and chemistry, astronomy. Even astro physics is as much an art as a science except that if there is math involved that is an absolute but as even TIME AND SPACE are relative according to Einstein and others including Hawking, it is difficult to know where to draw the line....Even traditional medicine is called a PRACTICE and my Da was a physician and used to say ALL THE TIME...EVERYTHING is relative....Nowadays psychiatrists deal mainly with drugs and leave the counselors to do therapy....so who knows? It is still better than in the 70's and even 80's when I was a social worker at a major state facility in Oshkosh, WI.....
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I do not see how you can not include biology and the related fields in the category of hard sciences. If they can genetically modify plants and mice, have a total and thorough understanding of transcription and translation of dna into proteins and countless other things, it is hard science.
Unless you put them under the umbrella of chemistry and physics which they do fit. Actually everything fits under the umbrella of physics.