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The way that you interpret all of your sources exactly backwards is showing Scientologistically scary attitude to the topic.

by judk 12y ago

lutusp 12y ago
> The way that you interpret all of your sources exactly backwards ... Prove it. Pretend to be a scientist. I said Asperger's has been abandoned, that's an objective, easily verified fact. I said the DSM will no longer be accepted as the basis for scientific research proposals, that's an objective, easily verified fact. Even you can masquerade as a scientist. I'm sure of it. I know this because psychologists do it every day. It's not as though my views on psychology are in any way original -- Richard Feynman had the same view of this field, and expressed it to anyone who would listen: http://www.lhup.edu/~DSIMANEK/cargocul.htm http://www.lhup.edu/~DSIMANEK/cargocul.htm "I think the educational and psychological studies I mentioned are examples of what I would like to call cargo cult science. In the South Seas there is a cargo cult of people. During the war they saw airplanes land with lots of good materials, and they want the same thing to happen now. So they've arranged to imitate things like runways, to put fires along the sides of the runways, to make a wooden hut for a man to sit in, with two wooden pieces on his head like headphones and bars of bamboo sticking out like antennas — he's the controller — and they wait for the airplanes to land. They're doing everything right. The form is perfect. It looks exactly the way it looked before. But it doesn't work. No airplanes land. So I call these things cargo cult science, because they follow all the apparent precepts and forms of scientific investigation, but they're missing something essential, because the planes don't land."
- PhasmaFelis 12y ago
  That's a very glib and stirring bit, and for all I know it may have been considerably more accurate in Feynman's heyday, when people still took Freud's weird hangups seriously. And of course psychology still has a long way to go, as any psychologist in the world will tell you. The only problem is, with modern psychology--not invariably, but more often than not--the planes do land.

The way that you interpret all of your sources exactly backwards is showing Scientologistically scary attitude to the topic.

by judk 12y ago

The way that you interpret all of your sources exactly backwards is showing Scientologistically scary attitude to the topic.

lutusp 12y ago

> The way that you interpret all of your sources exactly backwards ... Prove it. Pretend to be a scientist. I said Asperger's has been abandoned, that's an objective, easily verified fact. I said the DSM will no longer be accepted as the basis for scientific research proposals, that's an objective, easily verified fact. Even you can masquerade as a scientist. I'm sure of it. I know this because psychologists do it every day. It's not as though my views on psychology are in any way original -- Richard Feynman had the same view of this field, and expressed it to anyone who would listen: http://www.lhup.edu/~DSIMANEK/cargocul.htm http://www.lhup.edu/~DSIMANEK/cargocul.htm "I think the educational and psychological studies I mentioned are examples of what I would like to call cargo cult science. In the South Seas there is a cargo cult of people. During the war they saw airplanes land with lots of good materials, and they want the same thing to happen now. So they've arranged to imitate things like runways, to put fires along the sides of the runways, to make a wooden hut for a man to sit in, with two wooden pieces on his head like headphones and bars of bamboo sticking out like antennas — he's the controller — and they wait for the airplanes to land. They're doing everything right. The form is perfect. It looks exactly the way it looked before. But it doesn't work. No airplanes land. So I call these things cargo cult science, because they follow all the apparent precepts and forms of scientific investigation, but they're missing something essential, because the planes don't land."

PhasmaFelis 12y ago
That's a very glib and stirring bit, and for all I know it may have been considerably more accurate in Feynman's heyday, when people still took Freud's weird hangups seriously. And of course psychology still has a long way to go, as any psychologist in the world will tell you. The only problem is, with modern psychology--not invariably, but more often than not--the planes do land.