... you... you don't actually know much about how the practice of science works, do you MSH? Because what people think and what tradition says is true has (and has had) a
hell of a lot of influence on the
actual practice of scientific research, and apparently claiming that it doesn't just... flies in the face of basically everything.
Does tend to do pretty well over the long term for correcting that sort of thing, yes, but the short to mid term (you know, a generation, a lifetime, little things like that) have been kind of fraught -- and
continue to be fraught -- with institutional inertia and its varying accouterments getting in all sorts of the way.
Especially in the field of psychology and psychiatry. Which. Yeah. That is why you
don't defer
exclusively to medical science. How, when, and where it fucks up and has
consistently fucked up is a
known factor we haven't fully been able to correct for, yet. Scientific research has its fairly consistent methodological errors, y'dig?
Also:
And while we all have different experiences, the physical differences between the brains of individuals are low enough that what can be empirically determined is what can and must form the basis.
We're not actually at the point we can
tell, physically, exactly what and how crap is buggering up in quite a few bloody cases. So that sort of thing isn't always an option, yeah.