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From: tedrick@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Tom Tedrick)
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Subject: Re: Science and Freud
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Date: Sat, 17-May-86 19:00:02 EDT
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Summary: Down with Freud

>>Matt Wiener writes:

>>>And Freud is still considered garbage by the scientific community....
>>>[Freudian garbage] still fails every known test that the scientific
>>>community throws at it.

>>This is an extremely uninformed statement. 

>Blasphemy! How dare you question the Word of Wiener!

>Seriously, as one who, in the past, has held Freud's "distasteful" theories
>in low regard, I urge Matthew to reconsider his opinions about one of
>the most creative thinkers in history. 

I agree with Matthew on this one. I also agree Freud was "creative",
in the mathematical sense of creating nonsense out of thin air.



Having personally had to deal with many unthinking dupes of
psychological brainwashing (there are LOTS of them in California),
I believe psychology is in some respects no more
valid than witchcraft, and that some psychologists are guilty
of serious crimes against humanity, through misleading the public.



Pop psychology in the form of mass cultism (EST for example) has
misled millions of naive people, and is highly dangerous to society
as well as to the individual.