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They bought research as they bought vegetables - a wonderful insight into official thinking about science.

— Hans Eysenck

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There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.

Scientists, especially when they leave the particular field in which they have specialized, are just as ordinary, pigheaded and unreasonable as anybody else.

If the reader does not like some of the facts that emerge, I hope against hope that he will not blame me for their existence.

The social problems that arise, arise from the facts, not our investigation of these facts.

[W]hat is new in his theories is not true, and what is true in his theories is not new.

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