I thinks it's telling also how distinctly askew the two fields are in terms of 'progress'. Economics (after checking wikipedia really quickly) was practiced by multiple ancient civilizations including the Mesopotamians and the Greeks. Thomas Aquinas was born in 1225 and he's apparently called by some the founder of "scientific economics". To contrast, penicillin was discovered in 1928. The germ theory of disease goes back to 1546 at the latest but more reasonably could be dated to 1808. When you compare the amount of time that people have spent thinking about these respective fields to the number of concrete answers a specialist could give to questions one might ask, there can be little doubt about who is coming from a place of knowledge and who chose to study a system of inherently irreducible complexity and would like you to believe they have the answers you seek.