It doesn't matter one tiny bit. People are dying, or being forced into slavery by the thousands as a direct result of decisions made by corporations t...
If the police force are disproportionately made up of racists, those with sub-concious bias, or even those whose mere appearance of bias exacerbates a...
It was obviously rhetorical hyperbole. Has my prior posting history really given you justifiable reason to think I actually am that stupid such that y...
Anyone debating this is missing the point entirely. Pulling down a statue of someone associated with the the oppression of your community (or some com...
Your example doesn't illustrate the point in the slightest. The point was How does your example show where psychology got involved to prevent the brea...
Yet another conclusion about the real world (the one in which we use words to communicate with each other) drawn from a set of imagined properties of ...
Yeah brilliant. Perhaps the uniforms will be a different colour. I'm sure Jeff Bezos is quaking in his boots. Perhaps next week we could have another ...
The first is an empirical question then, for historians, yes? It's an interesting one, but not outside of philology. Did people, in general, use "phil...
I'm inclined to agree. There's a certain degree of defensiveness around philosophy which seeks to shut off certain avenues of meta-analysis using exac...
That's exactly what I'm trying to do here. Show you how unfair it is to make such unpleasant insinuations and then dismiss any attempt at defense as u...
You wrote a post, in a thread about the modern institution of psychology, which was entirely about how banking is still working for the benefit of pri...
You weren't making an historical point. Your claim was the all of psychology is complicit in Chinese genocide and that we all are agents of the state....
True, but this only acts as a bump along the road. We pounce on the Conservative's lack of substance by saying "well what would you do instead to impr...
So you should have no trouble providing evidence of cases where this has happened, together with an explanation of the mechanism that was used. Again,...
Too late. Not so complicated that we can't, when accusing one institution of being complicit in class oppression, racial segregation, genocide...produ...
It's unarguably the case that institutions (being slow to adapt) tend, systemically, to support social structures more suited to the society at the ti...
No, you absolutely will not. There are very few states left in the world where all forms of threat to state policy results in expatriation or imprison...
I get what you're saying, but I think there's an important difference. In philosophy people are actually trying to use the authority their method prov...
No, you stated that all psychologists (clinicaland research) need a state license to practice. I'm asking you what form that licence takes around the ...
Oh and just so we don't get too distracted by this diversion. I'm still waiting on your exposition of Where, in non-clinical psychology, does the stat...
So why not set your own house in order before embarking on a rant about some other group of people who's methods and restrictions you're clearly compl...
Interesting. Talk me through the licensing process for research in the UK. I'm concerned I might have been seriously breaking some rules for the past ...
Yes, but she didn't immediately strap on an AK47 and storm the White House for you, so she's basically just a capitalist shill! Hardly surprising as I...
I didn't say otherwise. I said that the only thing I have in common with them is that we study the same subject. I'm asking why that makes me complici...
I think that's what I'm trying to say (though re-reading I can see how it might come across as divisive). The solution is that we collectively say "we...
Yes, that too. By what ethical standard does studying some subject somehow make me complicit in the actions of others studying the same subject? Are e...
That pretty much answers my point with regard to the quote. It makes more sense from that angle, but I didn't get that from your original post. The wi...
Why are the other cops required to 'actively resist' the disproportionate effect of their institution's role on minorities in order to avoid charges o...
Yeah, this one always puzzled me too. I don't see anything at all difficult about the predictor knowing what you'll choose by the time you must make y...
6 month old babies employ these methods to establish predictable, useful models of their world. Is your claim that they're 'doing philosophy'? If so, ...
I've been through the whole nine pages (you can't just repost the links?). I can't find a single reference to any evidence of what you're asserting he...
@"Echarmion" has already highlighted the majority of the problems with this completely unsupported tirade so I won't repeat the list of assertions req...
I think that's true to an extent, but if you want to avoid claiming social and economic problems are mentally harmless, then the current social and ec...
I'm still not seeing the connection between non-clinical psychology and state-controlled 'normal behaviour'. Could you give me some examples of a non-...
So does a magic trick, is that abuse too? Do they? How? What contemptuous language? When you have break from accusing my entire profession of class op...
OK. So the idea is that all scientific research (in academic institutions) is actually just aimed at propping up the state in some way? So how far bac...
I'm not sure what point you're making here, unless, in addition to accusing my profession of perpetuating racial segregation you'd like to add child a...
Exactly the same can be said of all science. The state is capable of manipulating any data at all to legitimise its interventions. Should we abandoned...
You didn't even mention perception of object permanence in the under fives. I was asking how the political influence (let's take your example of the l...
The thread is 34 pages long. You raised the issue of psychology being somewhat to blame for the related issues brought up. I gave two responses asking...
OK... So what evidence do you have that ""Environmental factors" is an abstraction to lead the gullible psychologist to believe that "all the bases ha...
This is getting ridiculous. What evidence do you have that non-clinical psychologist don't speak out about ignoring environmental factors in diagnosin...
Yeah, some do. The vast majority don't. They investigate how memory is affected by perception, how noisy environments affect learning in autistic chil...
Yeah, I don't think I'd have much to add there as I think most of psychiatry is a crock of shit. None of this, however has helped explain your or unen...
OK, so since any long investigation of this issue would definitely be off topic, perhaps you could just point me in the direction of the research you'...
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