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Popper is usually accepted to have created one of the better definitions of science - although personally, I prefer Lakatos. But it's probably fair to say that Freudianism isn't science. However, I disagree with the implication that this makes Freud's work useless. Psychology is a social science, and most social sciences aren't scientific in the strictly Popperesque sense, but they're still useful. And strictly speaking, medicine often isn't exactly falsifiable, either. --[[User:AKjeldsen|AKjeldsen]] 11:55, 28 April 2007 (EDT)

Popper is usually accepted to have created one of the better definitions of science - although personally, I prefer Lakatos. But it's probably fair to say that Freudianism isn't science. However, I disagree with the implication that this makes Freud's work useless. Psychology is a social science, and most social sciences aren't scientific in the strictly Popperesque sense, but they're still useful. And strictly speaking, medicine often isn't exactly falsifiable, either. --[[User:AKjeldsen|AKjeldsen]] 11:55, 28 April 2007 (EDT)

:Bah, 99 percent of the work that I do in psychology is more closely aligned with [[Karl Popper]] and the [[scientific method]] then a great deal of the "hard" sciences like physics and chemistry :). [[User:Tmtoulouse|Tmtoulouse]] 12:04, 28 April 2007 (EDT)

:Bah, 99 percent of the work that I do in psychology is more closely aligned with [[Karl Popper]] and the [[scientific method]] then a great deal of the "hard" sciences like physics and chemistry :). [[User:Tmtoulouse|Tmtoulouse]] 12:04, 28 April 2007 (EDT)