On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 19:57:40 -0400 Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
I don't think many people will argue that psychology has a very good track record. Up until just 30 years ago, psychologists and psychiatrists nearly uniformly agreed that homosexuality was, scientifically speaking, a mental illness, a finding they finally retracted only after people _outside_ the field attacked them continuously over a period of many years.
I think that that's a very bad thing to compare with, since the question whether homosexuality is an illness is a matter of definition more than something one could expect to get from research in the best of circumstances. It is not that there used to be research concluding that homosexuality is an illness and that now that research has been invalidated. It is that one used to define homosexuality as an illness and now one doesn't.
Andre Engels