Specious.
“specious” I agree.
Science must be replicable. Using scientific methodology you frame your hypothesis, do your work and publish your results. Then someone else must be able to follow your methods and arrive at the same result.
Try re-doing the OJ Simpson trial ...
Law is a practical activity, one using Aristotle’s `trivium’ subjects—logic, rhetoric, grammar—or `people plumbing’. A lot of law is ad hoc even with statutes and case law (clearing throat, especially recently).
On the other hand, astrophysics, for example, is an artistic activity rather than a utilitarian one. It requires real thinking: math, astronomy, geometry, music—the quadrivium.
Science isn’t the `size of the chancellor’s foot’. It either is or isn’t; the angle/distance/note is either right or it is not, and anyone who knows what he is doing is the judge of it.
So yeah, comparing the two really is apples and oranges.