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 Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 2:01 am Post subject: Psychology is not a science... |
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I>m so sick of supporters of psychology claiming it is some sort
of science, when it is nothing more than an opinion with as much
scientific basis behind it as reading tea leaves.
I previously ranted on about the fraudulent "Dr." Park Dietz who
testified as to Andrea Yates' sanity at her trial for drowning
her five children, passing off his opinion of her mental state as
fact and supporting that opinion by citing the plot of an episode
of "Law & Order" that didn>t even exist. That pretty much says
everything you need to know about the "science" underlying
psychology.
Anyway, I will quickly rant about my brother who is insane because
he snorted too much crystal meth. The mental hospital refused to
admit him for lack of space, so my family got a court order to
hold him for observation and after a week the hospital psychologists
declared him practically cured and ready to go home, and the judge
was about to order his release when he blurted out some nonsense
about talking to dead people. The judge, whose expertise was in law
and not the finer points of advanced Freudian theory, was able to
recognize my brother as insane, while the professional psychological
experts believed he was sane. Either they are lying for financial
reasons and are therefore too corrupt to be members of the scientific
community, or they are not experts on mental health at all if they
truly believed my brother was sane. No different at all from Park
Dietz who also was unable to recognize Andrea Yates' obvious insanity,
also because of either incompetence or that he was paid for his
testimony.
Also, I recently read a business news article describing the popularity
of hiring psychological consultants to analyze the company>s social
dynamics in an effort to improve employee morale. One company hired
an expert psychologist for several million dollars who gave such insights
as when an employee is giving you a presentation that he worked on for
weeks and you keep glancing at your watch that it can demoralize him and
cause him to seek employment elsewhere. I>m not sure how pointing out
someone>s poor etiquette qualifies as science. I>m pretty sure Miss
Manners would give the same advice for free, and would proceed to admonish
the Gentle Reader for being so fucking ignorant as to not already know how
rude it is. |
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