Foundations of Sand?

The Psychologist magazine has just published an interesting article on some of the most important psychology experiments in the history of psychology. The author raises some "uncomfortable facts" about research on the bystander effect, Asch's conformity experiments, and Watson's Little Albert study. Sandy Hobbs suggests that some of the accepted 'facts' about the history of psychology may have a "whiff of fiction about them" and that psychology has not established a "Kuhnian normal science" like physics and chemistry. Psychology as an academic discipline may be built on foundations of sand. Have a read, there may be some useful evaluation points buried in that sand.

Foundations of Sand?

Personally, I think an earlier article in the psychologist identifies an issue that potentially undermines the house of psychology in an equally significant way. Read it here.