191. Michael Gordin on the Fringe of Where Science Meets Pseudoscience
The Michael Shermer Show
00:00
Social Science Hypothesis
i think there, it seems to me we can make some empirical claims like, no, people would actually, really rather live in a democracy. I'm perfectly willing to believe that's a plausible hypothesis. And then you would have to look at the fact that there are many places where voting has been happening for a while, and then people vote for anti democratic mechanisms to be put into place. So this is, again, you've pointed to this before, thi a social science hypothesis is very hard to a nail down. But we do have a lot of tools, and we are getting better at figuring out how to test some of the ideas we have. But it's unlikely to be
Transcript
Play full episode
