[nektro]

trying to compare the humanities here is not something you can do in good faith. they are not subjects based on any manor of objective truth and are mostly a personal endeavor of introspection on how you treat yourself and others.

re: the 70's, yeah a lot of people had bad opinions back then, but its also not hard to form evergreen good ones

[gtrevorjay]

Personally I agree with you that women's studies or psychology aren't sciences or even coherent subjects, but in the majority they themselves present as such and thus here I take them--speaking of good faith--at their word for the sake of argument.

And regarding lots of bad opinions in the 70's, that's partially my point. There was nothing in mainstream physics or computer science that is now looked back on as being as wrong as thinking trangendered people are insane. There's something fundamentally different (and you and I know what it is but I will here leave it unstated) that allows the humanities to veer more deeply into incorrect territory. To reiterate: this makes them a terrible educational investment.

[marcosdumay]

> There was nothing in mainstream physics or computer science that is now looked back on as being as wrong

Not exactly the same kind of "wrong", because, well, how could it be? But just a few days ago I was explaining in a comment here why nobody in academia teaches recursive descent parsers.

[gtrevorjay]

Again, not the same kind of wrong, and also not the 70's, but it is also looking like OOP is losing some luster.