> not directly science - they base on human social behavior, which is inconsistent over time, location and culture

Social sciences are sciences. They study different things to the 'hard sciences' but this doesn't mean they're not science, and doesn't mean they're not important.

> Bloomberg give that story a negative spin, and i'd like to know the intentions behind that.

Why do they need to explain themselves for defending education?

>Social sciences are sciences. They study different things to the 'hard sciences' but this doesn't mean they're not science, and doesn't mean they're not important.

Something's a science if it adheres to the scientific method, not just because it calls itself a science. Given findings like http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/08/100-psychology-experi..., social science may not be doing a great job of following the scientific method.

All the sciences follow the scientific method. There's irreproducible papers in every field, this isn't a problem exclusive to Psychology. Also, Psychology is but one of the social sciences.

Social sciences have some significant flaws, but they are not fundamental enough to invalidate them as fields of science. For starters, requiring a really good statistical knowledge to get a degree (nor merely teaching to plug numbers into some analysis program) and less focus on the history of the sciences that is replaced with learning the modern science.

I guess the intention is that they need doers, not thinkers.

And would also like to cut some expenses.

What they don't know is that it won't work.

You assume they don't know. I assume the opposite: after all this is an unpopular government, who just passed a law necessary to wage war. Humanities students are traditional adversaries for most established governments, a perennial hotbed of dissent. Imho someone is just trying to get rid of potential troublemakers when that war eventually comes along. If something else falls apart in the process, too bad

Doing and thinking not two ends of the same spectrum but two spectrum of the same individual. We need those who do and think. Those who think but do not do are harmless, as are those who do not think and do not do. But the worst of all are those who do without thinking.