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this post was submitted on 07 Jan 2025
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Social sciences are important even if finding truth is messier and happens over a longer period.
In any case, misinformation is often not something that can argued as just a difference of opinion. There are obvious cases like outright lies about the occurrence of events such as "immigrants eating pets en masse" or "the bowling green massacre", or that the "greenhouse warming effect" doesn't exist.
Fact checking doesn't have to be outright removal either, it just needs a critical analysis of the facts, and people can make up their own minds.
Social sciences are important, but treating their conclusions as absolute fact the same way we would hard sciences shouldn't be encouraged.