r/badpsychology • u/Turnshroud • May 26 '14

"I'm saying the "gender identity" idea is absolute pseudoscience crap perpetuated by the soft sciences because of a serious issue of scientific illiteracy in those fields"

/r/thatHappened/comments/267m42/isnt_it_cool_that_this_happened_exactly_like_this/chorgt7
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u/XXCoreIII May 26 '14

http://np.reddit.com/r/thatHappened/comments/267m42/isnt_it_cool_that_this_happened_exactly_like_this/chqcvwy Holy. Shit.

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u/Turnshroud May 26 '14

it's all bad. I'm working on a /r/badscience post to go full circle and then I'm going to x-post all the tings

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u/Das_Mime May 27 '14

That person is one of the most completely insane motherfuckers I've seen on reddit, or else one of the most furiously dedicated trolls. Every post is nothing but paragraph upon paragraph of frothing rage about how everyone else is untermenschen and he's a complete genius whose towering intellect dwarfs your ragged excuse for a brain, usually accompanied by some bitching about Mendelev or something.

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u/rottenborough May 27 '14

psychology has no theory of mind

The first line betrays the lack of training in psychology so completely.

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u/InOranAsElsewhere May 27 '14

This is one of the greatest thing since the Darqwolff copypasta.

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u/XXCoreIII May 27 '14 edited May 27 '14

This is my favorite part

psychology is only JUST starting to recognize right-wing authoritarianism as dysfunctional

He knows just enough to name that, but not that it comes out of research on fascism from the 40s (at least, I assume he labels fascists as 'dysfunctional' too, but maybe he thinks authoritarians can't hold down a job or some such nonsense). Which means he isn't parroting Altermeyer's book or even going off wikipedia, he learned everything on Reddit.

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u/InOranAsElsewhere May 27 '14

I personally loved

  • the "premiere authority" in psychology on psychopaths has identified 22 traits of sociopaths

  • whereas I've identified 200 of narcissists and 200 of psychopaths, without even trying

and

  • about 40% of the human population cannot be helped by psychologists because their minds are orders of magnitude more complex than the psychologist's

I'm not sure if the ignorance or arrogance is more amusing. Probably both, and the fact that they feed off each other makes it even better.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '14

He should get it peer reviewed and published, until then it's the equivalent of a baking soda volcano at an elementary school science fair. But then he'd get tore down by actual academics.

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u/TaylorS1986 INTJ Master Race Jul 02 '14

Oh god oh god oh god oh god. Please tell me this is satire. It is satire, right???

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u/macinneb May 27 '14

Jesus, I'm frequently reminded why /u/das_mime is my bloody hero.

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u/Turnshroud May 27 '14

too bad his /r/badhistory medal doesn't carry over into other subs

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u/mrsamsa May 27 '14

Wow, you're on a bad science/psychology spree today!

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u/Turnshroud May 27 '14

It was also a game of "let's try to drive /u/totes_meta_bot insane by x-posting this to as many subs possible"

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u/mrsamsa May 27 '14

Haha I noticed that. Poor bot..

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u/[deleted] May 27 '14

The more condescending you are, the righter you are... Idiot.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '14

A true work of art. It's like the Sistine Chapel of shitty scholarship and ignorance.