Comments by "Sebastian Rubio" (@sebastianrubio928) on "Gad Saad"
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Why can't I fully trust evolutionary psychology? It's mostly the methods used, but what bothers me most is the psychology part. I've talked to so many quacks over the years calling themselves psychologists. The main flaw with this "science" is the fact that the brain and consciousness are mostly unknown regions in actual science. The reason I don't trust psychology is mostly practical; so many ideas coming from psychology simply don't work, or at least they can't effectively be applied to our societies. I mean, it's such a giant difference with for example basic biology or basic anatomy, we know very well how the body works and we can predict and prevent a lot of injuries, but we don't fully understand the body yet, hence why there's still deseases and injuries we cannot cure yet, yet we still can make a case we know a fair bit about the human body. This is not something you can say about human psychology, there's some good ideas and I think some could be considered valid concepts, but we're still very far from being able to say: "we understand a lot about the human mind". In practise it's a fact that we cannot accurately predict how humans behave, to the point where we could prevent certain behaviours or perhaps predict and prevent them. I mean, just take criminality, why isn't it prevented based on psychology? Why can't we predict when somebody is about steal, rape or murder? I think a lot of psychologists pretend to know how humans work, but truth is they truly don't, all because their science is close to being pseudoscience, simply because the actual science is horribly incomplete. I do think Saad is amongst the better people in the field.
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