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Old 7th March 2019, 05:43 PM   #529
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Originally Posted by theprestige View Post
Begging the question that philosophy is any less of a clown show than psychiatry.
Nope, they're very closely related, both subject to enormous confirmation bias through lack of rigour, and two very soft sciences that appeal to people not committed enough to do actual science.

That's what makes this research so valuable - it's been completed by a bloke whose vested interests would probably lie in the other direction. I doubt he has many mates in the Psych-ology/iatry departments.
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