[IronJack]

Sigmund Freud is a virtual laughingstock in psychology today because his research methods were so dubious. Yet Alfred Kinsey, whose methodology centered on that ancient technique called “Making Stuff Up,” and who dabbled in the social sciences when he wasn’t out chasing butterflies, is regarded as a credible source of information on human sexuality?

Uh huh.

[Seruzawa]

Sigmund Freud is a virtual laughingstock in psychology today because his research methods were so dubious. Ironically psychology today is also a big laughingstock for exactly the same reasons.

[Steely Tom]

Yet Alfred Kinsey, whose methodology centered on that ancient technique called “Making Stuff Up,” and who dabbled in the social sciences when he wasn’t out chasing butterflies, is regarded as a credible source of information on human sexuality?

Telling people what they want to hear, telling them that the things their consciences are bothering them about are actually A-OK, and, in fact even healthy and "scientific," well, that's been a great way to get yourself canonized in the post-WWII western world.