Second, you have not stated what evidence you could see that would make you believe the sociological / anthropological theories are true.
Consilience, i.e., independent verification of their claims by people from other fields and few instances of refutations of their claims.
If Omega (who is always right) told you that anthropology is not more politically driven than physics, would you accept anthropological theories?
I would mostly update in the direction of him not being Omega. Now if he made a claim that was at least plausible, like anthropological theories having some political drivers but not enough to overwhelm the science that would be another story.
I don’t expect every claim to be independently verified. What I do look for is that the claims that can be independently tested will be confirmed rather than refuted.
Consilience, i.e., independent verification of their claims by people from other fields and few instances of refutations of their claims.
I would mostly update in the direction of him not being Omega. Now if he made a claim that was at least plausible, like anthropological theories having some political drivers but not enough to overwhelm the science that would be another story.
Er… why? You wouldn’t expect the proof of the Poincaré conjecture to be independently verified by phoneticians, would you?
I don’t expect every claim to be independently verified. What I do look for is that the claims that can be independently tested will be confirmed rather than refuted.