Psychology Science Debate

Not "science" but "a science", psychology, which is notoriously problematic with regards to reproducibility.

In fairness to science, this is just psychology.

Are you implying psychology isn't 'legit' science ?

you mention psychology, then go on the mention the hard sciences.

Can you explain this for those of us with minimal background in psychology? Is there a substantial amount of pseudoscience in modern psychology, or just historically?

I guess this speaks volumes of the sort of "science" you can expect from psychologists.

It is an ongoing problem with psychology. Psychology desperately wants to be a real science, and puts a lot of effort into teaching and emphasising the scientific method, statistics, etc, to the point that most of the emphasis on the scientific method came from my psychology classes, but somehow the people who choose psychology as their field of research seem to be more interested in spectacular results than in proper science. Psychology's history is steeped in unscientific thinking and ele

Psychology IS indeed pseudoscience, one of the most well known fields of pseudoscience, what made you think otherwise?

There is no science in psychology, period.By nature of dealing with humans you can't really run thorough experiments like on rats. On top of of that, psychology is mired with quackery, big egos and partisanship (nature vs nurture, CBBT vs psychoanalysis, humanistic vs psychodynamic, approach to DSM,..)I totally believe in good psychologists that can help you, I just don't believe there's much rigor and objectivity.<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/scienc

So enlighten me. What does psychology have to say about it?