Ken Burch
1 min readJul 6, 2020

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Her degree-which was in Constitutional Law-has not been disproved. And nothing you posted there actually disproved political science.

You simply asserted that political science is worthless as a degree simply because, for whatever reason, you disdain it.

You said nothing that had any relation to “reality”, and reality has not disproved the validity of political science.

Neither has “reality” disproved or discredited any other academic discipline you personally devalue.

Assertion and disdain are not proof.

Political science students, and all other liberal arts students, study history, there is generally a science or math requirement-and the coursework in political science- and sociology for that matter, is just as rigorous as in any STEM course-and, since I assume you are a climate change skeptic, you are not a student of science, since the scientific consensus is that human activity does, in fact affect climate.

Most science students do not accept the assertion that liberal arts courses are of no value. It’s not clear that math students do so either, or that students of either discipline look down at liberal arts students. Most science and math students also take a significant number of liberal arts courses themselves-few, if any, assume that STEM courses are the only courses of any academic value or the only academic courses in which academic rigor is an expectation.

Your post simply dismissed and sneered at the academic disciplines you look down on, without offering any argument for that view.

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Ken Burch
Ken Burch

Written by Ken Burch

Retired Alaska ferryboat steward, grandparent, sometime poet. Radical yet independent of dogma. Likes nice days, playing banjo and not as yet dying of Covid.

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