Social Science

Psychology Is An Unfalsifiable Pseudo-Science—A First-Principle Deconstruction of The Epistemological Failure Of Psychology

Authors: Leland Xing
Comments: 26 Pages.

This paper presents a first-principle deconstruction of psychology, arguing that it operates fundamentally as an unfalsifiable pseudo-science. We highlight that clinical psychology relies entirely on subjective self-reporting and circular diagnostic frameworks, its severe reproducibility crisis, the mathematically invalid statistical practices within the field, and how descriptive behavioral categories like ``mental illnesses'' are improperly used as root causes in a circular logical loop. We further dismantle common defenses of the field—including philosophical attempts to redefine the scientific method without the requirement of falsifiability and the retroactive rationalizations used to defend psychological practices. We conclude that the foundational mechanics of psychology are indistinguishable from astrology. Hence, we propose that society cease classifying psychology as a science, as expanding the definition of science to accommodate psychological methodologies would logically require granting the exact same scientific legitimacy to astrology.
Category: Social Science