Quote Originally Posted by aspi View Post
But it wasn't colloquial, it was just provocative since the added of sorts is simply wrong. In my experience, "most people" with this attiude are a clear (and way too large) subset of natural scientists. I can't recall a single instance where I talked to someone who had that attitude and wasn't in STEM. And honestly, it simply displays our ignorance and arrogance as natural scientists, which is completely unwarranted. I'm not sure how much historical merit there is to this bias, but if you look at some of the work that has been done in what is often referred to as "soft" science in the last century, the statement is utterly ridiculous.
To be fair, there is a difference between exact science and other kind of science. The problem of demarcation between between science and "nonscience" is known since ancient times and is still subject to certain (and, most of all, futile) debates.