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by yummyfajitas 6137 days ago
Physicists working on something close to relativity, mechanics, E&M or QM (not including foundations of QM) can agree on 99% of what they talk about.

Systems biologists can't, nor can climate scientists, oceanographers, ecologists, geophysicists or astronomers.

A few fields (namely the ones taught to physics majors) have a simple unified theory that every sane person can agree to. The rest are messy, much like economics.

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> Systems biologists can't, nor can climate scientists, oceanographers, ecologists, geophysicists or astronomers.

Notably, all fields where you can't do controlled experiments.