I'm not convinced biology has better theories than psychology to be honest.
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Replying to @o_guest
Ha! Well, you know - DNA, RNA, genes, selection etc. Admittedly many of these feel like established empirical facts already, but they started as theories. I struggle to think of comparable ideas in Psychology.
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Replying to @tom_hartley
If "DNA" is a good example in your opinion of a theory what stops "memory" from being a good one, or "neurons" or "learning"? Asking because I genuinely don't think psych is that bad for theories given these comparisons, but we can improve a lot.
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Replying to @o_guest
I am not trying to antagonize you though, and I know what you mean - Physics/Chemistry are older and the theories are correspondingly more mature.
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Replying to @tom_hartley @o_guest
Kind of a continuum, although I do feel that Psychology is now lagging dangerously behind. As if it doesn't really want to be a science.
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Replying to @tom_hartley
Some subareas of psych have a death wish. Even if the individual actors don't see it.
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Replying to @o_guest @tom_hartley
At this rate of "self"-critique and exposure to the public, I would say that perhaps more than some subareas... I just hope, not much, tbh, that people would re-think the strategy
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Replying to @twitemp1 @tom_hartley
Harshest thing I can say on this issue is that maybe they deserve to go the way they are going...
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INB4: Olivia is advocating for the destruction of subareas of psychology. No. I just am saying that if these subareas wanna go that way and I think the way is wrong, there is only so much I can do without turning into a fascist.
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If I think a way is a dead-end, but you wanna go down it, I can't really pin you down and force you not to go. I am not authoritarian. I'm warning you, but that's all I can do.
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Basides, like I said in this tree of a thread... there are modellers doing good work in all parts of psych. 
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