From: Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com>
>Some natural sciences are non-experimental, or mostly
>non-experimental, like astronomy, geology, and
>paleontology.
>Jim F.
And economics. Which is sometimes good for tripping up the stereotypical engineer/physical scientist-libertarian, who thinks of economics as the only 'real' social science.
I've used astronomy to trip up a physics grad student/libertarian/scoffer at 'soft science', who was foolish enough to distinguish 'soft/hard' by means of 'experimental/non-experimental'.
Barry
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