> If you loathe psychology so much, why do you hang around on a site where (until fairly recently) about a third of articles were about psychology in some form?

> If you loathe psychology so much, why do you hang around on a site where (until fairly recently) about a third of articles were about psychology in some form? Easily answered. The air where I live isn't clean, but I breathe it anyway, hoping that my natural defenses will filter out the pollutants. This approach has it all over holding my breath until the air becomes clean. > all these sorts of things are psychology, and plenty of them have metrics. Metrics without an accompanying explanation. Science requires explanations, empirical, testable, falsifiable explanations. Here's how the chairman of the NIMH explains this issue, as he moved to abandon the DSM: http://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/director/2013/transforming-diagnosis.shtml http://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/director/2013/transforming-dia...