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When will psychology finally be recognized as a pseudoscience?
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RE: When will psychology finally be recognized as a pseudoscience?
What psychological theory has made a specific prediction that has been tested, thereby refuting the theory?

At *best* psychology seems to be at the 'data collecting' stage prior to actually doing science. But without theories that make predictions that can be tested that thereby force a reconsideration of the theory, there is no science.

There are certain branches that seem to be getting closer to science: those that involve neurology and the biological aspects of the mind. But this is still very much in infancy.

Psychology still seems to be at the level of alchemy: there is a lot of interesting data being collected, but there is also a lot of hokum and nonsense. There is a hope it will actually evolve into a science (as alchemy did to chemistry), but that is going to take a LOT more work.
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RE: When will psychology finally be recognized as a pseudoscience? - by polymath257 - May 13, 2021 at 8:22 am

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