Replication Crisis
The replication crisis in psychology refers to concerns about the credibility of findings in psychological science. The term, which originated in the early 2010s, denotes that only about 30% of the findings in behavioral science can be replicated: Researchers do not obtain results comparable to the original, peer-reviewed study when repeating that study using similar procedures. For this reason, many scientists question the accuracy of published findings and now call for increased scrutiny of research practices in psychology.
Yes there's a reason for this. The reason is they only study behavior. Genes have shown very little direct causation. Still, they do not include infection in their calculations.
This is the legacy of Sigmund Freud. He started his career as a brain anatomist. He studied human brains under primitive microscopes. When he decided there was nothing in the brain to cause "neurotic" symptoms, he made up a whole bunch of shit involving classical and operant conditioning, which were also new and very much in vogue. He gave his made up cognitive theories latin names to make them sound scientific.
Then he sat in his office listening to his rich patients complain, while his wife and mother catered to his daily needs and every whim. He never cured anyone. He smoked and drank and his face rotted from oral cancer. Then he committed suicide. Go figure.
He was successful because there was no way to disprove him at the time.
The current state of Psychology is no better. It doesn't work because it doesn't consider sickness behavior. It's a big circle of correlating behavioral symptoms with eachother. And blaming the patients...
Because of Freud, most of those "professionals" were taught the brain is sterile. It is not. And they are surely as infected as the rest of us. Just like their hero.
