I think its because the field seems prone to making up wild theories and just rolling with it (i.e. learned helplessness that was recently debunked with brain s

I think its because the field seems prone to making up wild theories and just rolling with it (i.e. learned helplessness that was recently debunked with brain scans, most of what Freud contributed). perhaps opinion will change as brainscans/mri improve and make more rigorous studies of actual processes going on in the brain possible and then the norm. When i read studies in the field it often feels like a less reputable macroeconomics, which in turn feels like a less reputable theoretical physics...