1258: Hans Eysenck
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Personal)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2025/05/31
1952
“There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.”
1953
“The answer [to ‘What is wrong with psychoanalysis?’] is simple: Psychoanalysis is unscientific.”
1957
“Scientists, especially when they leave the particular field in which they are specialized, are just as ordinary, pig-headed, and unreasonable as everybody else, and their unusually high intelligence only makes their prejudices all the more dangerous.”
1967
“Personality can be reduced to biological factors and genetic predispositions.”
1979
“What you read in the newspapers, hear on the radio and see on television, is hardly even the truth as seen by experts; it is the wishful thinking of journalists, seen through filters of prejudice and ignorance.”
1982
“They bought research as they bought vegetables — a wonderful insight into official thinking about science.”
1985
“What is new in his theories is not true, and what is true in his theories is not new.”
1990
“I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it. If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.”
“Note that I have never stated that cigarette smoking is not causally related to cancer and coronary heart disease; to deny such a relationship would be irresponsible and counter to the evidence.”
1991
“I have no doubt, smoking is not a healthy habit.”
1997
“If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.”
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