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by bmy78 1869 days ago
The author uses a small subset (positive psychology and its nebulous definition of happiness, although the he doesn’t address that those psychologists do define that term) of psychology to denounce the whole field as “not science.”

String theory deals with measurements that are mind-boggling small to the point where experimentation is impossible. String theory cannot be tested in a lab or in any sort of tactile experiment. Experimentation is a critical piece of a science and so since String Theory cannot be tested with the scientific method, all of physics is not a science.

Of course that argument is absurd and so is this article.