"Temporary" Venting Thread V

[Tessar]

Originally Posted by The last sane person

Eh? Wassamatter?

Been spending tons of time on various websites checking out scientific/psychological/religious articles and saving them as PDFs, then making annotations of my own thoughts about their validity as well as trying to find supporting/dissenting arguments.

All I have so far is a crap-load of articles from every conceivable angle that all refute each-other pretty soundly. It's driving me over the freaking deep end.

It's also making me angry because of the reason that every article is able to refute every other article.... I have next to no real background in science or psychology, and I certainly don't pretend to be an expert in religion, but no one is doing their experiments properly. Even I can see that. Yet they're all publishing this $%(#) like it's some kind of revelatory gem of social scientific reasoning... Everyone is missing something, whether it's a proper test group, an appropriate field of questions/tests, follow up study, subject screening... or in many cases everyone relates their data back to -other- poorly done tests orrrr they use the "evidence" they find in their flawed experiment to "prove" something which is pretty much NOT capable of being proved by their "evidence."