Author Alliance: Psychology in 'organized disarray'

Author Alliance: Psychology in 'organized disarray'

J. Wyatt Ehrenfels says the work done so far by his cadre of field agents to audit the institution of Psychology has uncovered a culture counterproductive to the study of the human condition. Alliance members detailed a paradigm and a massive network of arbitrary and superfluous requirements and expectations with no grounding in science or nature that alienates researchers from the phenomena under study by compelling them to surrender their wits and freedoms to external sources of guidance and validation. "This is an elaborate machinery that bureaucratizes knowledge production and homogenizes academic and professional communities, conceals the natural diversity of ideas, suppresses new sources of unconventional talents, and develops rules for the sake of applying them inconsistently to censor or censure those that do not mesh with the status quo," Ehrenfels said today to his growing coalition of critics.

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