Quote Originally Posted by .blank cd View Post
A chemist, something you probably commonly associate with science, and a research psychologist/psychiatrists are using the same scientific method and under the same degree of scientific scrutiny.

The liquid gas is pretty much inflammable. If you set it on fire, you're seeing a thin surface layer of vapor on fire with the correct lambda ratio. I can stick a lit match in a cup of gas and put it out every time. Baking flour and coffee mate can be just as flammable as gas.

You take belief out of the equation.

As accurate as any in home pregnancy tests

Everything that happens with fire is predictable, measurable, can be calculated and duplicated on command. Every result can be explained and measured. Yes, baking flour can ignite almost exactly the same as gas... when properly mixed with oxygen, just like gas. A pile of flour wont explode, a mixture of flour and oxygen will. A predictable, measurable result that can be duplicated with certainty. A flour mill has to follow government regulations on combustible dust, they have regulated equipment that they have to use and even have monitoring devices that measure the PPM of dust in the air. The temperature in which something ignites is measurable, predictable and can be duplicated. That is an example of science at work..... compare that to say..... the mental exam a police officer would get after discharging his firearm or someone being diagnosed with depression.

Give me an example of psychology being used with any degree of measurable certainty. You can diagnose depression with the accuracy of a home pregnancy test?