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> Skinner was a charlatan for behaviorism Being wrong doesn't make you a charlatan. Skinner, to his credit, tried to operate scientifically, by formulating emp
by 462436347 3y ago
> Skinner was a charlatan for behaviorism
Being wrong doesn't make you a charlatan. Skinner, to his credit, tried to operate scientifically, by formulating empirically falsifiable hypotheses and testing them. Freud, by contrast, crafted reams of "theory" that his followers were expected to unquestioningly accept as gospel.
- naniwaduni 3y agoBeing wrong doesn't make Freud a charlatan either. It makes him a crackpot and a crack, but that's not the same thing.