"If we only knew where and how to look, we should be able to find emotional laws whose actions a person could no more resist than he could the force of gravity if he fell off a cliff." I like the idea of looking for these laws. Why hasn't anyone else thought of that?
I'm not sure that people haven't, but I think they run into more variation in people than they do in electrons. I don't remember any discussion about any emotion on any relationship mailing list that hasn't included at least one "YMMV". I think this makes strict laws more difficult to find, although still perhaps quite real, practical, etc.
He discarded any data not fitting his theories
I'm with you on this, although I find there's often an element of this in real science. I recall seeing a page of Milliken's real notebook while doing experiments on the charge of an electron (he later showed it was quantized, with a page scracthed out marked something like "data no good". :) (I agree with your take on Freud, but had to throw in this little tidbit.)
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I'm not sure that people haven't, but I think they run into more variation in people than they do in electrons. I don't remember any discussion about any emotion on any relationship mailing list that hasn't included at least one "YMMV". I think this makes strict laws more difficult to find, although still perhaps quite real, practical, etc.
He discarded any data not fitting his theories
I'm with you on this, although I find there's often an element of this in real science. I recall seeing a page of Milliken's real notebook while doing experiments on the charge of an electron (he later showed it was quantized, with a page scracthed out marked something like "data no good". :) (I agree with your take on Freud, but had to throw in this little tidbit.)
Keep posting this stuff, it sounds interesting!