There is a definite irony in demanding that one has to be precise in what one's claiming... right after dismissing an entire, very broad field as cargo-culting. "Exactly. It's cargo-cult science" in reference to a comment that classifies psychology as just the poorly-done parts of psychiatry? Terrible precision.
> ... in reference to a comment that classifies psychology as just the poorly-done parts of psychiatry?
In sciences, because of the unifying nature of theory, there are no poorly done parts. Both cosmology and particle physics would be independently weak were it not for the other, and what unites them is ... scientific theory.
Psychiatrists don't listen to psychologists, who don't listen to clinical psychologists, who don't listed to social psychologists. They're independent entities. If psychology were a science, that would all change, as physics is changed, as biology is changed -- all by tested, falsifiable, scientific theories.
