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Richard Feynman on Pseudoscience

Jacob Edward

Richard Feynman on Pseudoscience

A two-minute clip of Richard Feynman explaining why he considers much of social science pseudoscience. He stresses how easy it is to fool yourself and how much care real knowledge takes.

Commenters post it whenever a thread touches on soft sciences, replication problems, or what counts as real science.

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