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Not to criticise psychologists or psychology, but it does have one of the highest turnover rates of information of any science. Every several years, I believe, half of what was previously accepted is overturned. (I can't find my source for that, my google fu has failed me.) 
It's to be expected though; humans are complicated. We can't dismiss an entire branch of science just because it's difficult.
Maybe we'll get a paradigm shift one of these days.

It's something around half, yeah, so far as I can recall, or at the least was a decade or two ago. That it's that little is honestly kinda' impressive given how gorram young the field is, and how many different things influence it. It's not just a matter of humans being complicated, it's a matter of what that complication means.

Hard sciences should be called easy mode sciences vis a vis experiment construction and execution, t'be frank; they're goddamn child's play in comparison to how rough it is getting good rigorous data with any of the soft sciences. The hard sciences' experimental scopes are almost always comparatively miniscule, their variables few, their ethics barely a concern, their cross discipline influence relatively small and easy to isolate, their core precepts often fairly well established decades or centuries ago, and the time scales required to get really good data from any one experiment generally functionally nonexistent.

None of that is true for bloody close to anything the soft sciences do. It's amazing they're managing as well as they are given the several magnitudes more trouble involved in just studying them, never mind coming to any conclusions as well.

Yeah, I'm from Texas, I'm used to walking outside and the air giving you a great big steamy hug.

Cold kills healthy adults, heat kills only those who are already weak and near death

... heat kills healthy adults perfectly fine, max. If you're from texas, you should actually know this. I'm from florida, and heat stroke has been trying to kill me annually since I was a kid. S'come close a few times, too, and we actually do lose healthy folks to it often enough.

Heat also kills crops just fine. Particularly when paired with drought. There's different crops that'll do alright in cold, too. Extreme temperatures either way screws with people and the various things they give damns about. One's a hell of a lot easier to get comfortable in, though, and it damn sure isn't the hot months. We can all move to sane climates, use automated bots to harvest food in the hellzones. That's a future I could get behind.

And yeah, fuck summer. Fuck summer with the bones of every person it's killed, may it drown in the oceans of sweat it drags screaming from the flesh of mankind, strangled in the parched flesh of everyone it's dehydrated.

Or at least florida summer. Any tropical/sub-tropical area, really. I know what hell on earth feels like, and it's called "July" _{and multiple months on either side of it.} What I understand summer in some places is relatively sane, so maybe it's not as bad there, but anywhere even remotely close to the equator it can go shove heat shattered glass up its arse.

They're already trying? Was noted upthread it's already trying to be spun as the whole "it's so dangerous for police" thing. Or in the ameripol thread, I guess.

All of which is a possibility...

Near as I can recall the jealousy angle is entirely from extra-biblical sources. The canon texts broadly say bugger all about the adversary's (/adversaries') motivations, so far as I can recall at th'mo'. Beyond that, most modern satanism really has very little to do with the Christian conceptualization(s) of (the) Satan(s). They use the word and some of the iconography, but it's otherwise functionally unrelated. Forgot exactly why they co-opted the title, though, save as a stick to the eye of a major organized religion. Which would have been reason enough given the general ethos of many of the movements, really...

Rol, I give slightly less than two shits about the character of the people getting killed, or even the bloody circumstances. If there's less people being put in the ground one way or another due to interactions with the police, I'm pretty close to not giving a single damn how it happens. This ain't what my taxes are paying for, nor what some of my friends and family should have to be connected to because they actually want to try to not be one of these shits, and I've been sick of it for a long time and getting sicker.

And anything else I was about to say got ninja'd, so whatever. Too late for this shit.

One held down and shot, the other murdered by cops during a traffic stop (for trying to get out his wallet, iirc ), so far as I'm aware. Unless there's been another, or one or both of those were from yesterday.

E: Name wise, one was Alan Stirling, the other Philando Castile, if I'm reading discussion elsewhere correctly. Headache, though, so it's possible I'm not.