Psychology is a pseudoscience?
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Yes it is, as well as psychiatry (which deals with medications and treatments that did not evolved for almost 30 years).
They are based mainly on theories and cannot be proved whatsoever. Only correlation, and empirical treatments results have contributed to sit the base of this ''science''.
no, you fool. PSYCHIATRY is pseudoscience.
Evidently, you slept through the lecture on Experimental Psychology.
If that's not science, then science doesn't exist.
I wouldn't exactly call it a "pseudoscience", but I wouldn't grant it a lot of credibility, either.
ALL sciences have ONE major problem in common - UNKNOWN VARIABLES! However, in the fields of psychology and pschiatry, this problem is vastly more noticeable.
It is extreme arrogance for ANY branch of science to assume that they know everything about their field that there is to know. Yet, they almost ALL take that stand to one degree or another. Almost NO branch of science ever admits, "Well, we THINK this is how it is - based on what we know now - but we readily acknowledge that it's all subject to change without notice, upon the acquisition of new knowledge."
New knowledge and info is generally added to the equation ONLY when it validates the prevailing opinions by fittting the already established parameters of what has been deemed acceptable. New information, no matter HOW compelling in its validity, that contradicts the "status quo" is more often denied, ignored and/or just plain "swept under the rug".
When dealing with an area that involves human well-being to the extent that the so-called "mind sciences"do, however, that assumption surpasses mere arrogance and moves all the way into dangerous irresponsibility! And when this kind of arrogant irresponsibility is given authority over people's lives, we find such gothic horrors as shock treatment, frontal lobotomy and the morbidly depressing situations depicted in the classic movie and broadway play "ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST".
I read somewhere - no I do not remember where - that psychology and psychiatry have a 3% cure rate. That, if true, equates to a 97% failure rate! (I know that I, personally, have never met nor even HEARD OF anyone who has been genuinely helped by it - and I have met some pretty badly messed-up people who've been exposed to its best efforts.) And yet, its word is taken as valid in courts of law where individual human's lives and quality of life are at stake!
A pseudoscience? No more than any other "science". It just happens to be the one with the most blatantly obvious unknown variables.
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