At 1:13 PM -0400 4/24/99, Charles M. Huffman wrote:
>In the past 3 years, I have taken 3 students before the committee.  On each
>occassion, the Chemistry prof. basically attacked the scientific rigor of
>the psych experiment in question.  Without actually making a statement as
>such, the implication by the chemistry prof. is that psychology is not a
>science.

_Some_ chemists, at least, suffer from "physics envy".
That was a good part of the problem with 'cold' fusion:  a couple of
chemists trying to pretend that they were physicists.
You might look for an ally in the Physics department to put things into
perspective.

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