Science is on the top right corner

Even if technologies  make us all feeling like scientists, the majority of people still produce sentences that are neither verifiable or predictive:

- didn’t you know that [such politician] is a [definition that is not verifiable because italian  newspapers stopped to inform us fifteen years ago]

- Even if there is the crisis (which us common mortals cannot verify) in the future economy will rise again (that, even if we remember to check is a “generic” prediction)

- We will cure cancer (what kind? There are a lot and are completely different) in three years (uau!)! (This has really been said by Berlusconi a month ago for propaganda).

But what are the professional figures that produce predictive and verifiable models? I divided into four categories the university profiles, excluding law:

- Verifiable and Predictive: Science and Medicine

- Predictive but not verifiable: Engineering and Economy (and yes, how can one make a prediction that cannot be verified before its time?)

- Verifiable but not predictive: Historians (Love’em)

- Not verifiable and not predictive: Philosophy (Hic sunt leones)

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