May 18, 2025
I just finished a really interesting book about the Third Reich's belief in/support of "border sciences" (what we'd call "alternative science" or pseudoscience), which was mostly really informative and terrifying and morbidly fascinating given our modern context...
HOWEVER, I have a real bone to pick with Kurlander's using Freud and the psychological establishment as an example of "real scientists" opposing the border sciences.
#hitler's monsters#pseudoscience#alternative science#alternative medicine#eric kurlander#freud#psychology#parapsychology#look I agree the telepathy thing is nonsense#but you can't say with a straight face that freud's incest fantasies were scientific#that man had no respect for empiricism#there were plenty of actual scientists to use as examples!#geologists#archaeologists#physicists!#every one of whom was more of a scientist and better-qualified to look down on the border sciences than any psychologist of the 1940s
