>We should always remember that science is supposed to help understand the world, but the world isn't limited to science. In other words, social aspects of our lives are just as important as learning anything else.

I wouldn't disagree - "the proper study of man is man" is something that seems truer to me as time goes by. Unfortunately, it is also the study most plagued by preconceived notions, and the prevalence of those in the social sciences is what makes me question whether they yet deserve to be called 'sciences' at all. Still, it's something to aspire to...

I suppose I'm tilting at windmills to object to the author using "science" when they evidently mean "the rationalist assumptions of the social sciences", much as I object to claims of a "replication crisis in science" when, again, the data applies to the social sciences.

But then, I evidently have time to tilt at windmills, otherwise I wouldn't be on reddit.