Where did our thinking skills go? What about questioning skills? Do we have to take everything at its face value?
As usual, I’m angry with some people in my profession. I’m not angry because they’re better than me but because they’re dumber and they don’t know it yet, and they’re ruining the profession for the rest of us! As they say, ignorance is bliss! It is human nature to listen to authorities because thinking causes distress and use of resources, which we don’t want to use unless we absolutely HAVE TO! So anyway, this fellow posts things on the net without any references attached to it. For example, he says something like, “long hours in front of TV cause kids to reach puberty early”. Jackass, support it with some research else you’re simply pulling things outta your ass, really! What impact does this have on people? People start to think that because this famous person who has knowledge about the world said it, it has to be true!
When will people in my profession realize that psychology is not based on opinions or simple observations and generalizations. It is a science where, if you have a hypothesis, you test it and then decide if it holds true under any or all circumstances, and only after doing that, you let it fly in the open. Your opinions mean shit to me. Show me a study and I might….MIGHT believe what you have to say. If you’re saying something, support it with a study, yours or anybody else’s, but a scientific study! If you cannot do that, then don’t call yourself a psychologist because you’re nothing more than a douchebag pulling things out of your ass or writing things you've heard from other without using your brains to think about it twice! You’re nothing more than a fool pretending to be a bigger fool!
