[tim333]

I meant iffy mostly as having negative side effects as seen with most attempts at Marxism for example. I also dislike the intellectual style which seems to lead towards grand sweeping but vague and unfalsifiable theories. Give me simplicity and testability.

[theoh]

I think you are essentially dismissing philosophy in general.

From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability

"Sir Karl Popper is not really a participant in the contemporary professional philosophical dialogue; quite the contrary, he has ruined that dialogue. If he is on the right track, then the majority of professional philosophers the world over have wasted or are wasting their intellectual careers. The gulf between Popper's way of doing philosophy and that of the bulk of contemporary professional philosophers is as great as that between astronomy and astrology."