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Comment author: pdf23ds 26 November 2009 01:42:43AM 0 points [-]

psychology with highly dubious one

Clinical psychology, sure. But psychology in general, i.e. cognitive science, umm, no.

Comment author: taw 26 November 2009 02:31:40AM 7 points [-]

I'm pretty sure that if you compare track record of any field of psychology with track record of chemistry, it will be highly unflattering for the former. I did not wish to imply that psychology is entirely without results, just that it compares rather poorly with hard science.