> The history of psychology psuedoscience being used to validate racial bias is undeniable.
At the time it was called just "science". Then new people entered the field, called the old things pseudoscience and started the cycle anew. I'd argue that not much improved, the social sciences was bad back then and are just as bad today and most of the things they preach today will be seen as totally wrong and ignorant and dangerous by the scientists of the future just like we view those of the past.
This makes it sound like the scientific method is somehow soft or relative. It isn't. Short circuiting the scientific method was pseudoscience then, it's pseudoscience now.
At the time it was called just "science". Then new people entered the field, called the old things pseudoscience and started the cycle anew. I'd argue that not much improved, the social sciences was bad back then and are just as bad today and most of the things they preach today will be seen as totally wrong and ignorant and dangerous by the scientists of the future just like we view those of the past.