Sociology is not really a social science. It deals in just-so stories, platitudes and bizarre musings. Science (of the non-experimental sort) is about making precise, rigorous arguments that can be checked for their soundness and assessed together with any available evidence.

I can't tell if this is trying to demonstrate how HN users don't have a solid grasp of social sciences via parody, or a genuine post.

Yes exactly, they sound just like that. And worse sometimes too, but that’s not a bad parody.

I think you've confused popular attempts to over-fit the findings of sociology to social ills with sociology itself.

Yeah, I think this is exactly what the commenter meant - are you seriously beating the “social science is not a science” horse in this unrelated thread?

For reference, sociology is a statistical science. Like physics. It does seem like you are strictly unfamiliar with the practice of sociology.