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[-] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

I'd happily see the Œdipus complex meme. Psychologists deserve to be endlessly clowned on as long as Freudian theory keeps getting taught and practiced by licensed professionals instead of being relegated to the history of the sciences alongside bloodletting and humors theory.

Academic fields are collectively responsible for these actively harmful ideas (psychoanalysis and homo economicus) being continuously propagated by ill-intentioned or incompetent academics. I don't care that these theories are now "widely considered outdated" or whatever the fuck, proponents of this quackery are actively giving interviews and teaching classes and no-one in their field is seriously considering stripping them of their credentials. That's more than enough justification for the mockery.

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