(04-11-2019, 12:16 PM)TJBender Wrote:

(04-11-2019, 07:53 AM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote: I will help you. A PS degree is a worthless degree and one of those degrees people receive and walk away with 100K in student loan debts and complain about the "system" because their 30K a year job doesn't allow them to pay it back.

Hi there. Polisci degree. Zero student debt. Got scholarships and worked my way through it. I get paid a lot more than $30k. A lot more. If I could do it all over again, I'd have finished my journalism degree because that's where my passion was, but that's part of the reason I'm in the middle of a divorce, so yeah. Polisci is only a worthless degree if your goal in taking it is solely to graduate.

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(04-11-2019, 11:15 AM)MalabarJag Wrote: Still not a science. What you're describing is studying history.

And that was the point Massie was making, that a person with a degree claiming to be in a science when it isn't is doing the same thing when bloviating about global warming, and has no credibility.

Studying history is one thing. Applying that history to modern events and using it to shape future policy decisions borders on science. The vast majority of polisci majors end up waiting tables or driving Ubers, but the few who take historical precedents and political theories, apply them to modern situations to create hypothetical policy, test that policy idea through polling and information gathering, then recommend putting that policy in place or not doing so are using the scientific method, even if they don't get to make H/O2 balloons turn into massive fireballs on a weekly basis.