I have no good evidence for it, I just heard it said. I shouldn't have repeated it without finding out.
> EDIT: I don't see any record that there was an article about you in the French or Japanese Wikipedias... what were the article titles?
Had they existed, they would be titled with my name -- and they don't exist. The Japanese CareWare article mentions me, in text that is a near-match of the English version.
There's another reason I shouldn't be saying these things, apart from the fact that I didn't bother to verify them first. There are psychologists in Japan also, and they might adopt the same strategy as the English psychologists. :)
What I learned by criticizing psychology is that its followers react in much the same way as religious true believers -- sanctimonious and very emotional.
As to the reaction to your criticism this might help:
I had to go and read /building_science before I knew what you meant. It was a nice surprise to find that you are very passionate about the differences in scientific rigour that everyone in science knows about. It was a nice surprise because you present yourself in a similar way to scientology nutjobs and other anti-science activists.
To be more effective sound less like them (yeah, yeah, it's not "fair". so what, this is about pragmatism) and drop the hard line between "not scientific" and "scientific". You aren't afraid of explaining complex concepts obviously so explain that there is not a hard line and that this is a spectrum with multiple factors and the relative importance of those factors.
I have no good evidence for it, I just heard it said. I shouldn't have repeated it without finding out.
> EDIT: I don't see any record that there was an article about you in the French or Japanese Wikipedias... what were the article titles?
Had they existed, they would be titled with my name -- and they don't exist. The Japanese CareWare article mentions me, in text that is a near-match of the English version.
There's another reason I shouldn't be saying these things, apart from the fact that I didn't bother to verify them first. There are psychologists in Japan also, and they might adopt the same strategy as the English psychologists. :)
What I learned by criticizing psychology is that its followers react in much the same way as religious true believers -- sanctimonious and very emotional.