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Originally Posted by Kizzy

Then that cancels the whole premise of sociology, and a lot of new right theory, is all that to be dropped too?
Lone parents raise delinquent children... if you are jobless you are also feckless.. if you are raised surrounded by poverty and crime it's your fault if you're poor and involved with crime and criminals...

When's the debate on this?

Things being theory rather than fact "cancel the whole premise" of the academic discipline they belong to?

I think this might be coming from an incomplete understanding of what's (academically) meant by the word "theory". Theory is not synonymous with opinion, and academic theory is not layperson guesswork. But it's also not fact.

For example, gravity is theory. Very robustly proven theory, but theory nonetheless. I don't think we're planning to cancel physics.