Social Scientists Are Real Scientists

The Washington Post | July 4, 1987 | Copyright

Recently on this page, articles by columnists George Will and Jeane Kirkpatrick and Post editorial page staff member Amy E. Schwartz have portrayed a rift at the National Academy of Sciences between members who are natural scientists and those who are social scientists.

This unfortunate impression was created in April when a social scientist nominated for academy membership was not elected by members present at the annual meeting. Yet critics are mistaken when they interpret this one event as a rejection of the social sciences generally or, more broadly, as a politicization of the election ...

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