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In each section you will write the example and details to the law that was broken.
Psychology is a "fuzzy" science, but it's still a science. At this point it must be clear to the intelligent reader that clinical psychology can make virtually any claim and offer any kind of therapy, because there is no practical likelihood of refutation – no clear criteria to invalidate a claim. This, in turn, is because human psychology is not a science, it is very largely a belief system similar to religion []

Psychologist Timothy D. Wilson, a professor at the University of Virginia, expressed resentment in his [|Times Op-Ed article] on Thursday over the fact that most scientists don't consider his field a real science. He casts scientists as condescending bullies: "Once, during a meeting at my university, a biologist mentioned that he was the only faculty member present from a science department. When I corrected him, noting that I was from the Department of Psychology, he waved his hand dismissively, as if I were a Little Leaguer telling a member of the New York Yankees that I too played baseball. []

You are entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts.

Science runs on careful criticism.

Fight fire with fire, and data with data.

There's power in precise terms.

Correlation is not causation.

More of something good isn't always better.

Beware the plausible, especially if it works.



Where there's smoke, there's smoke.

Lack of evidence doesn't mean it's false.