Richard Feynman’s skeptical view on social science

The never ending debate on “real science” and “pseudo science”. In this short clip, Richard Feynman points out the ‘fallacies’ of social science research. From the point of view of the “exact” sciences like chemistry, physics or mathematics, the reasoning looks sound. However, from a science philosophy point of view, one could argue that even the great Richard Feynman is comparing apples and oranges. Social science and exact science have different merits. The nature of science is that it works of the principle of falsifiability (a term posed by Karl Popper). And in social sciences, there are no real ‘laws’ which can compare to exact sciences. However, and interesting clip to watch, since this topic seems to recure.