respect to individual psycholgists who work hard to fix the bigotry

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    8 days ago

    oh yea im aware. i’ve just had a lot of people just dismiss psychology and sociology bc “its a soft science” and thats just bs elitism to me. medicine is to me more bigotted than psychology as an institution, but i havent met anyone calling it a soft science so not mentioned here

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      True scientists understand it’s never proof, always evidence. Mathematics has proofs. Science has theories and laws that are subject to change with new evidence. Technically, all science would be ‘soft’ by the standard of those critics.