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by InSteady 879 days ago
>Only one is a real science.

Human psychology is a messy business, but when research is conducted earnestly and rigorously according to the scientific method then it is science by definition.

You can find a discipline problematic and unworthy of your interest without actively gatekeeping it, by the way.

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> You can find a discipline problematic and unworthy of your interest without actively gatekeeping it, by the way

Such patronizing. Unworthy of a real scientist.

When their "experiments" generally don't replicate, then it's not a science. Maybe similar to Colbert's word "truthy," what psychologists do is sciencey.