16. Freud Was Indirectly Responsible for the Scientific Method
Another important figure who was a contemporary of Freud was Karl Popper, an Austrian-born philosopher who was deeply troubled by the rise of what he called “pseudoscience.” He wanted to figure out a systematic means of weeding out Freud’s “pseudoscience” and distinguishing it from great minds like Einstein’s. He developed the scientific method, which laid out the need for generating testable hypotheses, doing research, and performing experiments that can be duplicated with similar results.
