They were funded by other scientists and medical professions who became heads of the CDC, etc. People from humanities are ill quipped to select grant recipients for any real research.
The scientific method is philosophy, but the majority of humanities never go anywhere near the scientific method other than to convince themselves that doing a qualitative oral survey of some classmates is just as much a “science” as the falsifiable ones.
> Why did people take or not take vaccines? Humanities,
The failure of humanities to produce any meaningful predictive behavior of humans is a pretty good example of why it’s a failed branch of inquiry.
> mastered messaging and mass political communication, which is humanities.
The people who have done this are completely outside of the grasp of the humanities taught in US universities. Every Ivy League economist, sociologist, social psychologist, etc that was in US leadership for the last 20 years has done nothing but flounder.
The scientific method is philosophy, but the majority of humanities never go anywhere near the scientific method other than to convince themselves that doing a qualitative oral survey of some classmates is just as much a “science” as the falsifiable ones.
> Why did people take or not take vaccines? Humanities,
The failure of humanities to produce any meaningful predictive behavior of humans is a pretty good example of why it’s a failed branch of inquiry.
> mastered messaging and mass political communication, which is humanities.
The people who have done this are completely outside of the grasp of the humanities taught in US universities. Every Ivy League economist, sociologist, social psychologist, etc that was in US leadership for the last 20 years has done nothing but flounder.