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Study shows psychotherapy becoming less effective (asserttrue.blogspot.com)
6 points by techdog 3999 days ago
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dpc_pw 3998 days ago
R. P. Feynman on social sciences: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaO69CF5mbY

Psychology, economics, climatology. World is literally run by "almost-sciences" claiming to have an authority of "full-science".

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vannevar 3998 days ago
Seems like a classic case of the Decline Effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_effect).
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