What are your favourite examples of TOO BIG TO FAIL #ideas in #science and the #humanities?
i.e. theories on which there's too much investment (money, careers, ideology, institutions) for us to accept they are bunk: #NFT would be a great example in tech; #IQ a good example in psychology.
@gvdr for psychology, the whole disease model itself, literally built into the language of #mentalillness which is an unfortunate Frankenstein of several different concepts crudely stitched together. Especially where we pathologize natural protective reactions to horrible situations just to get people any help.
Mental illness was such a vast improvement on previous models, and critical for destigmatizing treatment and researching physical causes, but it needs more…development?
