Mad movement on main
June 13th 2023
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I've been thinking lately that I need to be more
vocal about my feelings on the mad movement/mad
pride and my criticisms of psych as a field.

I'm always frustrated by how controversial it
seems to be to point out that a lot of psych is
still pseudo-science, systems of control and
bigotry dressed up in p-hacking and wishful
thinking.

I don't know.

I feel like I often get treated like I'm
anti-science when I say these things but I'm
not. I just think there's a lot in the past
century of history that's flawed and needs to be
rebuilt off of different foundations. This doesn't
seem controversial to me. I've worked in sciences
like physics that are full of reinventions and
massive re-understandings of the field, and that's
about comparatively simple systems to---say---a
living thing.

I express a fraction of these criticisms and
people talk to me like I'm stupid.