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Comment author: tadamsmar 15 January 2014 08:11:11PM *  -1 points [-]

Actually if it works as well as I claim, psychotherapy for kids might be less effective. It involves changing the kid's environment. Psychotherapy can't do that. You have to get the parents to be willing to change and give them training.

On the contrary, the fact that psychotherapy works at all is evidence that the operant conditioning methods I am pushing are not the whole story, and of course operant conditioning is not the whole story.

By your definition, medicine is not a sound science because stability overall in detail is not to be expected due to genetic variability.

Comment author: Lumifer 15 January 2014 08:34:30PM 0 points [-]

By your definition, medicine is not a sound science

It is not.

Notice how only recently the idea of "evidence-based medicine" appeared and how much pushback there was (and is) against that idea.