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You can't just put "mentally process" in front of a subject and then claim that a psychologist is the person to be a reliable expert in them. Is he a reliable e

You can't just put "mentally process" in front of a subject and then claim that a psychologist is the person to be a reliable expert in them. Is he a reliable expert in how to "mentally process quantum mechanics"? How about how to "mentally process epidemiology"?

DocTomoe 5y ago
Sure. But a trained psychologist is capable of commenting on hysteria about pretty much everything, including global warming. And that the kids marching in their little organised-by-adult-pied-piper protests suffer from a form of induced mass hysteria is obvious to anyone who read the medical definition of mass psychogenic illness.
- Intermernet 5y ago
  What about all the trained professional climatologists pleading for the last few decades for the governments of the world to change their policies? Is that mass hysteria as well?
  - DocTomoe 5y ago
    So if one's standpoint is ignored and "noble" enough, it is acceptable to talk children into anxiety disorders so that these noble ideas will be acted upon? I find this morally questionable, but that's just me.
    - polotics 5y ago
      Don't worry the anxiety is only there as long as crisis hasn't hit. Then anger takes over.
    - Intermernet 5y ago
      You brought the children into the argument. Until then it was Jordan Peterson vs climate science. Leave the children outside the debate for now. You're trying to use them as an example in much the same way that many people will bring up "think of the children". Jordan Peterson needs to argue the points raised by the climatologists.
- polotics 5y ago
  That is one vile post. Do you have any evidence that kids marching are doing so because of "organised-by-adult-pied-piper protests" have you read the latest IPCC report? If your life expectancy is anything longer than twenty years, do expect to see the other end of your misguided certainties. If not, there is still a good chance you yet will.
- goodpoint 5y ago
  > the kids marching in their little organised-by-adult-pied-piper protests suffer from a form of induced mass hysteria You are making a good example of a political statement dressed as a scientific truth. Similarly to ideas like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drapetomania https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drapetomania and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrenology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrenology, masquerading one's own ideas behind scientific-sounding words is how a scientist loses credibility.

DocTomoe 5y ago

Sure. But a trained psychologist is capable of commenting on hysteria about pretty much everything, including global warming. And that the kids marching in their little organised-by-adult-pied-piper protests suffer from a form of induced mass hysteria is obvious to anyone who read the medical definition of mass psychogenic illness.

Intermernet 5y ago
What about all the trained professional climatologists pleading for the last few decades for the governments of the world to change their policies? Is that mass hysteria as well?
- DocTomoe 5y ago
  So if one's standpoint is ignored and "noble" enough, it is acceptable to talk children into anxiety disorders so that these noble ideas will be acted upon? I find this morally questionable, but that's just me.
  - polotics 5y ago
    Don't worry the anxiety is only there as long as crisis hasn't hit. Then anger takes over.
  - Intermernet 5y ago
    You brought the children into the argument. Until then it was Jordan Peterson vs climate science. Leave the children outside the debate for now. You're trying to use them as an example in much the same way that many people will bring up "think of the children". Jordan Peterson needs to argue the points raised by the climatologists.
polotics 5y ago
That is one vile post. Do you have any evidence that kids marching are doing so because of "organised-by-adult-pied-piper protests" have you read the latest IPCC report? If your life expectancy is anything longer than twenty years, do expect to see the other end of your misguided certainties. If not, there is still a good chance you yet will.
goodpoint 5y ago
> the kids marching in their little organised-by-adult-pied-piper protests suffer from a form of induced mass hysteria You are making a good example of a political statement dressed as a scientific truth. Similarly to ideas like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drapetomania https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drapetomania and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrenology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrenology, masquerading one's own ideas behind scientific-sounding words is how a scientist loses credibility.