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Because you bring in biblical references, thus moving the discussion onto their turf.

Mainstream feminism conveniently forgets about the realities of socio-economic class, and tries to blame on gender issues things that actually have to...

Clearly, you have not met many women.

Oh? It's people who don't care? Or is it that almost no academic disciplines and professions care about people? People should care about psychologists...

But of course, the placebo effect is real, and a great optimism about a medical treatment can contribute to better treatment outcomes. I actually envy...

Your hostility is duly noted. Which of my bills are you willing to pay?

Really? So we're supposed to believe that, for example, people who drive aggressively, who tailgate, cut in front, run others off the road etc. sudden...

Oh yes. That's why people vote for Trump.

What are you, as a psychologist, willing to sacrifice in order to reduce the stigma of a psychiatric diagnosis? Answer this, and you'll have a context...

*aww* The confidence with which they speak suggests otherwise. Not when you're on the other side -- when you're the one in position of less power.

That's the thing: Scientific studies usually give suggestions in terms of probability, plausibility, not in terms of certainty. What makes the differe...

Oh Jesus. For example, I once trained to be a school teacher. I got to see from up close the way school psychologists treat children. Yes, I understan...

Now please tell us that you didn't learn that from Twilight! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlpPkwyincI

Fuck you for this cynicism. At the end of the day, it's all about confidence. It's not even about health. I'm not the one who needs to look it up.

Nah. I doubt anyone in this whole thing really thinks of others. It's just politically correct to say one is doing it "for others". It makes for such ...

For all practical intents and purposes, psychology has been a prescriptive science. It's been about how people should be, and how they might become th...

And this is what granpa fought for in WWII!!!!

The key term is prescriptive.

I suppose it's like this for some people. It seems to me that for many more, it's "I'm already in bad shape, exhausted and stressed out to the max, I ...

Of course pretty much everyone wants such protection. That's not the issue. You're strawmanning. The question is whether such protection is even possi...

I'm talking about what would justify the same great measure of legal power that they have. As for false diagnoses, there is a number of issues: For on...

But this is precisely what psychology attempts/aspires to be: a third party to tell you who you really are.

I think people in general are far saner and more resilient than psychology has been giving them credit for. I appreciate George Bonanno's work on this...

It's not the same thing. When crossing the street, you don't actually think of it in terms of risks, do you? I don't. I doubt anyone does. I usually d...

Yes, but I think this instruction is supposed to be taken as a polite way to brush off an impertinent intruder. It's the sort of thing people say to s...

And you believe you're so lucky that nothing bad can ever happen to you from a medication?

What's that with the breathing under water remark? I personally do not think there exists a unified antivaccination side. People who are not overtly e...

That's not the only problem. It's that a person has so many thoughts about a certain topic, often contradictory ones, as one can tell from one's own e...

Yeah, when psychologists say such things to people, this really helps to improve the reputation of psychology!!!

That's the idea. Most people don't work at a computer, and working from home isn't an option for them, because of the nature of their work.

Fool, we've been over this, at least once.

Everyone has to do that anyway, at any time.

By some estimates, the probability of complications due to the vaccine is greater than the probability of complications due to covid. So is the choice...

You're letting yourself be dragged onto their turf, exactly what I warned against.

Oh, the irony. The reality is that psychologists themselves act as if psychology _is_ a hard science like physics or chemistry. That's how much credit...

What are you talking about? For an employer, it makes sense to hire someone for whom there is reason to believe will consistently be available for wor...

That depends on the type of work one does, the position one has. A lowly worker in a factory or a subcontractor can hope for no such accomodations. Th...

Yes. Critical thinking (as understood in Western secular academia) is counterproductive to success in the world.

Are you trying to give an example of precisely what I'm talking about?

The problem is that the whole vaccination public discourse is so superficial, it's scientism. And hostile. On both sides, the provaccination side as w...

But often, they're not doing equal work. They're probably doing equal work in, say, a factory setting working at a conveyor belt. But in many other pl...

Eh? I suppose there are people who indeed prefer to lounge around all day and be waited on. But is everyone like that? I doubt it. Many people probabl...

No, the scheme is supposed to mean that a word in one language has a group of meanings and a word in another language has a different group of meaning...

Do you think it is possible to deliberately induce the placebo effect? As in, "have faith" and the placebo effect will set in?

I don't. I stopped. Now I'm only interested in things that interest me. Sometimes, I google a theme and mostly just skim read the results. At some poi...

The Smiths: Vicar in a Tutu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke2nucbxP1E a Vicar in a tutu He's not strange He just wants to live his life this way htt...

What a strange thing to say. Science is science. If something is indeed a science, then it should be science all the way down. But in practice, it so ...

Philosophy that is cut off from real life is of no relevance.

If they are supposed to have that same measure of legal power, then psychologists should get their act together and agree on one theory and enforce it...

It seems that psychology has largely taken over the role that religion/religiosity used to have. So that it is now psychology that prescribes to peopl...