[ SECRET POST #2988 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2988 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Problematic academic disciplines

[(Anonymous)]

Should medicine be held accountable for advances made based on vivisections of human beings in dark periods of human history? Should psychology be held accountable for the rise of lobotomies in the 20th century?

Of course not. They're academic fields not people, and now bound by modern ethics. Eugenics was a flawed anthropological theory. It was not anthropology as a discipline. The world moved on from that after the horrors of WW2.

Re: Problematic academic disciplines

[(Anonymous)]

we found the antro major

The point is that they were quick to say that psychology and medicine were EEEEEEEEEVIL because of those things, while failing to see the irony of pretending that the history of their own discipline was flawless.

Also, I can't speak about medicine, but I can say that when I was getting my psych degree we talked a lot about how important it was to learn about our past mistakes, and we frequently talked about the role psychology has in mantaining the status quo. Any discipline can benefit from some critical thinking.

Just as a side point

[feotakahari]

There's definitely some evil being done in psychology's name today: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactive_attachment_disorder#Alternative_treatment (The article doesn't mention it, but alternative treatments are associated with the fundamentalist Christian community in general and that maniac Michael Pearl in particular.) The point of interest, though, is that these techniques have been roundly rejected by the psychiatric establishment. Sometimes the system works.

Re: Just as a side point

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, that's exactly what I mean. Pretending everything is in the past blinds us to the mistakes we'red doing today. That's why it's important to be able to be critical about your own discipline.

Re: Just as a side point

[(Anonymous)]

But you're comparing one class you took to your entire major. That's hardly a fair comparison. All the anthropology majors I know have very critical things to say about their discipline, past and present.

Re: Just as a side point

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah which is why I prefaced it by saying that.

Re: Problematic academic disciplines

[(Anonymous)]

Hah. Nope actually, Physicist. We like to lambast Chemistry for being unpure but really it's because we know Maths has us all beat.;)

I just hate this new effing trend towards treating academic subjects like they're capable of crimes. A field of study can result in morally dubious ideas like Eugenics sure, but most people shy away from the implementation.

Having reread both your comments though I think I misread what you meant. Yeah if anthropllogy majors are taking that attitude that's pretty goddamn stupid.