The process by which we define “science” can be loosely twisted and given certain connotations depending on the person deciding its meaning. In “The Dying Russians,” by Masha Geesen, Political Science is abled to be described from a point of science. Often people doubt the accuracy and legitimacy of political science being an actual science, but Masha’s examples of studies and researchers lean otherwise.
One study done by Nicholas Eberstadt was a full emersion into the findings, causes, and effects he was looking for. His intense and extensive study looking at very minuscule details shows the effectiveness of looking at political science as a science. Despite certain trail errors, it was still a very successful study. In experiments involved in the hard sciences, there are still margins of error and theories just as there are in the study of political science, proving that these studies are reliable and true. While the question of reason for why the deaths of so many Russians is still up in the air, the question of whether or not a study of political science can be defined as a “science” is answered.