There have been many times in my time at VMI that studying international studies and political science that people of the formal sciences have made comments about those of the social sciences just talk about their feelings and that it  is not a real science. I agree that in many ways it almost seems unfair calling political science a science when they are off studying molecules and cell structures. It seems like we are comparing apples to oranges. That is just it though, we are, we are comparing two completely different types of science (formal science and social science), but they both contain the same four components that allow them to be considered a science. This means that it does not matter which type of science we are doing as long as we are studying it using the scientific method. Both types of science require you to take  the facts and try and interpret them in order to make some sort of advance in the scientific field. Then simply put they are both transparent and there is uncertainty in the conclusion with both. Where I do think that social scientist deserve more credit in some ways is that we are not studying a science that is black and white. It is harder to create and conduct experiments. Often times because we are dealing with people and people are not predictable it is hard to have 100% control over experiments, yet social scientists are able to adapt and improvise in order to try and create theories. I guess my point is that formal and  social sciences have different challenges, but they both are challenging.