They're at it again.An entire scientific community could be wrong about something, be expected to know that they are wrong, and for nearly inexplicable reasons persist in Verb 1. persist in - do something repeatedly and showing no intention to stop; "We continued our research into the cause of the illness"; "The landlord persists in asking us to move" continue being wrong ("Fit to Be Tied: Impatience with string theory boils over," SN: 10/21/06, p. 264). This happened when the medical establishment embraced Freudian psychology Noun 1. Freudian psychology - the psychological theories of Sigmund Freud mental hygiene, psychotherapeutics, psychotherapy - the branch of psychiatry concerned with psychological methods as an explanation of human behavior. In spite of extensive training in the biological and chemical sciences, medical practitioners of Freudian psychoanalysis ignored the basic principle that any scientific explanation of natural phenomena, including human behavior, must be testable. Perhaps physicist-author Lee Smolin Lee Smolin (born 1955 in New York City) is an American theoretical physicist, a researcher at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and an adjunct professor of physics at the University of Waterloo. is right in suggesting we are witnessing groupthink group·think n. The act or practice of reasoning or decision-making by a group, especially when characterized by uncritical acceptance or conformity to prevailing points of view. Noun 1. , again. BILL VAN SICKLE, MILFORD, OHIO |
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