Psychology is a pseudoscience (hooey):
The assertion that psychology is a pseudoscience has been asserted for the last several decades. One of the most well-known pieces that got the science world talking was published by by Alex Brerezow who has a PhD in microbiology an expert in immunology in which he wrote:
But to claim it psychology is “science” is inaccurate. Actually, it’s worse than that. It’s an attempt to redefine science. Science, redefined, is no longer the empirical analysis of the natural world; instead, it is any topic that sprinkles a few numbers around. This is dangerous because, under such a loose definition, anything can qualify as science. And when anything qualifies as science, science can no longer claim to have a unique definition, anything can qualify as science. And when anything qualifies as science, science can no longer claim to have a unique grasp on secular truth.
What followed, and was incredibly ironic, was that in response psychologists, who got their skirts in a knot over the assertion that psychology was much more a pseudoscience than science, was their published piece in the research journal Frontiers in Psychology, in which they opined about the psychology of pseudoscience:
“Pseudo-expertise: A conceptual and theoretical analysis.” Pseudo-experts [psychologists] piggyback on the well-deserved reputation of proper experts to create the misleading impression that they are competent and trustworthy sources of information. As such, pseudo-experts not only help to spread misinformation, but they also undermine people’s trust in real experts and pose “a threat to the very foundations of knowledge in liberal societies.
From the horses’ mouths.
This is not to say that some therapies should not be discounted, it’s to say that psychology is too-often slinging around snake-oil treatment without the rigors of the body of a science including the DOZENS listed here – that can cause actual harm: - including this horrible study on triplets that in and of itself challenges the “validity” of the field itself:
Get rid of the pseudoscience – psychology and psychologists who and protect the often-naïve public by ensuring practitioners properly educated and under the rigorous umbrella of real sciences such as neurology and psychiatry - and force them to abandon generations of unsupported treatments (hooey) that waste patients’ money, neurological health, and well-being.
Psychology is hooey and the topic of this thread supports that notion.
Primal scream anyone? 
