It’s very difficult to name anything “new” in psychology that isn’t recycling ideas at least 40 years older, or often simply plagiarizing them .
And I came across the concept of moral masochism while researching antivaxxers and such, because I could not understand the people whose response to everything was “Hurr durr! Hurr durr! Derp! Deerrrp!”
That lead to the idea of the blankness of “characterological” issues. Bring up psychology and the response escalates to “HURR DURR!!! HURR DURR!!!” but generally nothing more than the same characteroligical blankness. Poke that with a stick and you’ll get swarmed by the blank-faced pod people:
Ultimately this is about a general hatred of reality and contempt for other people, as well as the destruction of knowledge and all means of understanding. Naturally psychology must be destroyed as well. There’s a sort Khmer Rogue mentality which is politically mostly in America’s right wing, but intellectually in the “as if personalities” of the left and right. It’s always a hoot when people who claim to believe so many things so intensely turn out to be nihilists.
To me the biggest threat is that the “owners” of these genes can actually sue farmers for having them in their crops even though they arrived there via bees that the farmer had no control over. Your farm can be colonized by GMO plants and then you owe someone for your use of them? Basically these companies are trying to own the “means of production” of food.
Computer Science. That is not a joke, that is actually what she has a PhD in.
Which is practically the same thing as immunology, right? I’m joking of course, because using computer models to make predictions about things like what causes autism is still pretty much like predicting next summer’s weather on Europa. Actually, long range extraterrestrial weather forecasting is probably a lot more reliable.
Of course, you can’t tell that to animal rights activists, who have long believed that computers can replace in vivo experiments. A few years ago, they would have featured more prominently in this discussion, but I think we can probably find a strong correlation with PETA membership and the antivaxxers, vegans, organic foodies, etc.
