Why Medicine is not Science! Essay
Here's why medicine/nursing is a social (soft) "science" and not a real (hard) science. That's because factors are not strictly controlled (often barely controlled) and measurements aren't reported as they exactly are, just like many other social sciences. Also, social sciences are based on standalone findings from empirical data only and do not have underlying fundamental theories to adhere to and ultimately be traced back to. In other words, social sciences have too low of a standard. As a result, social sciences usually only use ad-hoc explanations, which make them prone to tweaking of parameters to change the conclusion. As expected, social sciences have a replication crisis, in which findings are not always repeatable. The most notorious example is psychology. For example, using social science standards, the Earth can be concluded as flat or round, depending on the set of standalone ad-hoc explanations used. In true (hard) science though, the Earth can only b...