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comment by Tiger_the_Lion
Tiger_the_Lion  ·  3216 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Psychology is bunk

Odder already said most of what I would have, and put it a lot better than I could.

I just find it strange that psychology seems to get this kind of response so much more than other sciences. Psychologists wouldn't be the first scientists to get something wrong. They wouldn't even be the first scientists to get a lot of things wrong. But how many people call physics "bunk" when a set of results can't be reproduced. We need to remember that mistakes within a field don't necessarily make that field invalid.