I must confess such self-congratulatory and self-justifying talk is very common among psychologists, I peg this kind of talk under the "our science is also very important for society" even if most of it is actually not at all. And that's not an issue as most medical science is also pointless and crappy, the same goes for chemistry and physics. It's what the amount is that is useful and if they can extract what is meaningful from what is not. And I think to a degree that psychology is worst on that scale below that will be medicine and so on. The pointless comparison I see a lot, this will go on my red flag list. Which sees to grow longer and longer.
I must confess such self-congratulatory and self-justifying talk is very common among psychologists, I peg this kind of talk under the "our science is also very important for society" even if most of it is actually not at all. And that's not an issue as most medical science is also pointless and crappy, the same goes for chemistry and physics. It's what the amount is that is useful and if they can extract what is meaningful from what is not. And I think to a degree that psychology is worst on that scale below that will be medicine and so on. The pointless comparison I see a lot, this will go on my red flag list. Which sees to grow longer and longer.