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, 20:50, March 30, 2016→More doctors believe in God than social scientists. Medical science is often more reliable than social science
On the other hand, according to Livescience.com, 31 percent of social scientists believe in God. (27 percent of political scientists, which is a social science, believe in the existence of God).<ref>[http://www.livescience.com/379-scientists-belief-god-varies-starkly-discipline.html Scientists belief in God varies starkly by discipline], Livescience.com</ref>
On the other hand, according to Livescience.com, 31 percent of social scientists believe in God. (27 percent of political scientists, which is a social science, believe in the existence of God).<ref>[http://www.livescience.com/379-scientists-belief-god-varies-starkly-discipline.html Scientists belief in God varies starkly by discipline], Livescience.com</ref>
Compared to medical science which has many effective cures, social science is often unreliable. For example, few economists (economics is a social science) in academia predicted the 1987 financial crisis. Few political scientists predicted that [[Donald Trump]] would be the leading Republican candidate in the GOP primaries in 2016.
=== Social science of psychology frequently contains pseudoscience ===
In 2011, the ''[[New York Times]]'' declared:
{{cquote|Also common is a self-serving statistical sloppiness. In an analysis published this year, Dr. Wicherts and Marjan Bakker, also at the University of Amsterdam, searched a random sample of 281 psychology papers for statistical errors. They found that about half of the papers in high-end journals contained some statistical error.<ref name="nytimes" />}}
[[Vox Day|Theodore Beale]] reported:
{{cquote|This is why therapy [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/wellbeing/health-advice/i-was-an-nhs-psychologist---but-i-suffered-from-depression/ is reliably doomed to failure]:..
In addition to the 46 percent of psychologists who the [[National Health Service|NHS]] reports as being depressed, "out of 800 psychologists sampled, 29 per cent reported suicidal ideation and 4 per cent reported attempting suicide."...
Would you go to a plumber whose toilet is overflowing? Would you hire a computer programmer who didn't know how to use a computer? Then why would you ever talk to one of these nutjobs in order to fix whatever mental issues you might be having?...
There is very little scientific evidence of the benefits of psychology. I read one recent study which showed that neurotic individuals actually stabilize on their own at a higher rate than those who seek therapy. This is no surprise, as the foundations of psychology are literally fiction.<ref>[http://voxday.blogspot.com/2016/02/psychologist-heal-thyself.html Psychologist, heal thyself]</ref>}}
== NAS and politics ==
== NAS and politics ==