watching this, I like to play the game of 'how many of these people have regular jobs and how many are only working part time, and how many are full time pracitcing this and not working at all?' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOCoL_-0FEA
and to make things worse, this problem is most pronounced in the soft sciences like medicine, psychology, sociology, economics, etc. - the exact topics you might want to be citing if you're talking about politics
plus at the very deep level with politics, the questions become such that they are not amenable to empirical study,
like
say we know that a certain amount of diversity causes a certain amount of eroding in social trust, increase in anxiety disorders and depression
but it also boosts the GDP some amount and helps businesses grow
and we want to know is that a worthwhile tradeoff? there's no way to answer this scientifically as it's a value judgment
