This is a critique of "biologism," the idea that the biological science supplies the means to bindingly explain psychological (and social) processes. The author argues that proponents of
biologism typically ignore the close relation between the complexity of the human brain and the methods pertinent to investigating it, a fault that he finds rooted in psychology's illusory
claim to be a natural science as opposed to a discipline that sometimes uses natural scientific methods. He analyzes selected examples of psychological research in the style of a natural
science, in particular those that use the "Test of Significance" or "Null Hypothesis Test" as a standard form of data reduction, and concludes that there is "an extremely crass and weighty case
of charlatanry in psychological science." Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
