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Defending Freud (side A)

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Social Science Is, Is Bunk Science?

The social sciences often bear the brunt of anti-intellectual discourse, he says. People find different ways to justify racist or misogynist ideas because they don't set their experiments up right,. He adds that psycho analysis obviously can never be a science if it's founded on subjectivity.

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