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All religions are pseudo psychology and psychology is a pseudo religion.
If you want to believe in something, then it better agrees with your knowledge of what exists and doesn't.
And that can only stem from an empirical truth.
Otherwise you're a sheep.
A sacrificial ornament to someone elses existence.
"All religions are pseudo psychology and psychology is a pseudo religion."
Unless you're meaning closer to "Science is a pseudo religion", then I take it you mean the older ideas related to it?
Behaviorism's a little more cause and effect than some of the other philosophy-esk ones.
One of the hardest things for developing new findings in Psych is funding. If they make the tests cost-effective, it usually sacrifices accuracy of results. If it's a study with accuracy as the forefront of it all, it usually has high costs.
I'm mostly sad at the whole "ethics" thing. Some of the best data we've found have come from those in charge being arguably inhumane. It sucks in the here and now, sure, but years, or even decades from now, the data could make for so much change.
Have you ever wondered, why Freud's later research has been classified?
I'm not pointing at some paranoid delusions of a grand conspiracy.
Merely the fact, that throughout the rise of civilization there seems to be a major collaboration between people who have issues with empathy?