Gary, if you consider yourself open to different ideas and willing to discuss them, you would not be denigrating me as "reciting the usual nonsense".  You attribute or imply things I never said.

I never "discredited" the hard sciencies, nor mathematics.  It's almost imposible to do so. 

But the social sciences, including politics?  These are "soft", and always subject to interpretation.  And, "educated" is not limited to the above sciences.