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October 6, 2010

Is Psychoanalysis Science or Pseudoscience?

Bud & Bunge, NewScientist

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Is psychoanalysis worthy of a place in London's Science Museum? Of course it is, says Robert Bud. Certainly not, counters Mario Bunge

Robert Bud is principal curator of medicine at the Science Museum in London

THE Science Museum has never set itself up as a gatekeeper, deciding what is science and what is not. As a museum, we have a wide-ranging interest in many forms of scientific culture. Our great collections represent diverse technologies and practices as well as research. This has been the basis of our approach...

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TAGGED: pseudoscience, psychology

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