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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?
(May 13, 2021 at 11:11 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote:
(May 13, 2021 at 8:22 am)polymath257 Wrote: 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.

Here is the latest issue from the annual review of psychology: Volume 72, 2021 | Annual Review of Psychology 

Based on the titles and their abstracts, could you point out which article seems like alchemy to you? The first one "Active forgetting: Adaptation of memory by prefrontal control" is open access if you want to skim through it and make any comments.

"Tade-offs in Choice' and 'The Cultural Foundation of Human Memory', and 'The Origins and Psychology of Human Cooperation' are the most likely candidates based on the abstracts. The one you mention seems to be the least alchemic.
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RE: When will psychology finally be recognized as a pseudoscience? - by polymath257 - May 14, 2021 at 8:17 am

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