News reports are sensational. They have to be when the networks are competing for advertisers' business. Unfortunately, it means that politicians will be playing along : rash comments, reactionary views - something to appease their supporters.
As much I would like to have confidence in the people in Parliament or legislature, I was appalled by Prime Minister Harper's comment about the bombing at the Boston Marathon when he said that it is no time to commit sociology.
No social science is perfect - no social science is objective whether it be economics, history, anthropology or sociology. For that matter, no applied science like physics, biology, chemistry or medicine is objective either : they depend on funding, ideology and a cultural legacy.
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