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::I think there needs to be a distinction between the state of a scientific field at the time of its origins, and the current level state of the art. Early medicine involved techniques like bloodletting and the use of leeches that would be considered bad or pseudoscience today, but we don't regard contemporary medicine by those early practices. In the same light, I would not evaluate the validity of modern-day psychoanalysis by the methods of its first practicioners like Freud, who were taking baby steps by comparison. --[[User:DinsdaleP|DinsdaleP]] 12:20, 11 January 2009 (EST)
::I think there needs to be a distinction between the state of a scientific field at the time of its origins, and the current level state of the art. Early medicine involved techniques like bloodletting and the use of leeches that would be considered bad or pseudoscience today, but we don't regard contemporary medicine by those early practices. In the same light, I would not evaluate the validity of modern-day psychoanalysis by the methods of its first practicioners like Freud, who were taking baby steps by comparison. --[[User:DinsdaleP|DinsdaleP]] 12:20, 11 January 2009 (EST)
:::Psychoanalysis is, almost by definition, based upon an acceptance of Freudian theory. You can't separate 'then' from 'now' in this field. [[User:MikeSalter|MikeSalter]] 12:23, 11 January 2009 (EST)
:::Psychoanalysis is, almost by definition, based upon an acceptance of Freudian theory. You can't separate 'then' from 'now' in this field. [[User:MikeSalter|MikeSalter]] 12:23, 11 January 2009 (EST)
:::Mike is right. There's a reason why the term psychology is used rather than psychoanalysis. There is no psychoanalytic "science." [[User:RodWeathers|- Rod Weathers]] 12:34, 11 January 2009 (EST)
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==Climate change==
'Anthroprogenic Global Warming' - the greatest con perpetrated by pseudoscientists in recent decades - surely this should have a place. [[User:MikeSalter|MikeSalter]] 12:12, 11 January 2009 (EST)
'Anthroprogenic Global Warming' - the greatest con perpetrated by pseudoscientists in recent decades - surely this should have a place. [[User:MikeSalter|MikeSalter]] 12:12, 11 January 2009 (EST)