[charlysisto]

The problem with stating that 'economics is science' is the strong underlying ideological and political bias. The human factor is always recursive : the very beliefs of what is natural (aka: science) in a given culture structures the way the society works. The ancient Greeks and Romans considered slavery natural, so they had slaves and you could therefore empirically/scientifically prove the basic laws of slavery... Abandoning the way you see society to science implies the way it works is deterministic and thus cannot be changed. You basically abandon freedom to ideology with a fake science mustache.