Is Social Science Possible?
From New International, Vol.14 No.1, January 1948, pp.31. Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL. Can Science Save Us? by George A. Lundberg Longmans, Green, 1947, $1.75. This is one of many books which have appeared in recent months discussing science from the bourgeois point of view. It is generally more progressive than most of them, in pleading for the extension of the scientific method to wider fields. Lundberg separates himself from the “scientific” irrationalists, like Eddington, Compton and Millikan, who deny that man’s social ills are susceptible to scientific analysis. But while Lundberg points out that the early development of the sciences was opposed by those with vested interests in ignorance and superstition, he does not understand that the same stuation is faced by the social sciences today. Despite his limitation, he makes a contribution in emphasizing that there is no fundamental difference, such as precludes the application of intelligence and scientifi
