Unfortunately, good stories are so compelling to us when we take the role of psychologist or social analyst that we do not realize that at best they … - Robyn Dawes

The Milgram studies led to a great deal of criticism from other academic and professional psychologists. Ironically, the major focus of this criticism was that the studies would “destroy faith in psychologists as authorities,” to which Milgram’s response was “Fine!”

The world as postulated by the recovered-memory theorists is not an impossible one—just an extraordinarily unlikely one.

Thus, logic and mathematics are important in determining “what is,” though not necessarily implying what is. “What is” must be consistent with logic, namely, with “what could be.”
Why? I don’t know. To me one of the great mysteries of life is that by simply thinking logically we can determine a lot about the universe—or at least conclude what can’t be, which together with empirical observation leads us to some pretty good ideas about what is.