In a waking reverie, pioneering psychologist, William James, thought with
he had discovered a great truth.
But later, in the light of day, reflecting on that opinion, he dismissed it.
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/03/28/hogamous/
PS. My apparently mistaken understanding, due to reading a HJ Eysenck popular exposition of pysychology for a lay audience, that this was an experience of James, leads me to suspect that there may be something in claims that Eysenck’s scientific work was (also) a ‘figment of his imagination’ or the product of a fevered mind.
His teacher, Cyril Burt is also known as the serial perpetrator of scientific fraud.
Is psychology (also) a scientific fraud?
Feynman and cargo cult psychology at DDG
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