At 10:45 AM -0600 11/25/07, Beth Benoit wrote:
>From today's New York Times:
><http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/25/weekinreview/25cohen.html?_r=1&ref=education&oref>http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/25/weekinreview/25cohen.html?_r=1&ref=education&oref
>
>And a tip of the hat to Scott Lilienfeld...

As it should be (except in History of Psychology classes).
In other words, Freud's word exists currently as a literary metaphor.
The article talks about lack of empirical verification as one of the 
main problems.
Before you have empirical verification you must have specific 
testable predictions (hypotheses).
Until Freudian (neoFreudian, postFreudian, whatever) theory can 
attain any sort of scientific status it must be restated in a way 
that makes specific predictions possible.
-- 
The best argument against Intelligent Design is that fact that
people believe in it.

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