MacGregor The Bridge Builder

Old Scottish joke:An old man at a bar is complaining. “You see that bridge there? I built it with my own hands! But do they call me ‘MacGregor The Bridge-Builder’? No! And I raised five beautiful children! But do they call me ‘MacGregor The Child-Raiser’? No! But, you fuck one sheep . . .”Has MacGregor been treated unfairly?This was my complaint in The Beauty Of Settled Science. Psychology laid bare the secrets of the brain - it performs computations through a neural network communicating via electrical impulses intermediated by neurotransmitters crossing synaptic gaps - but do they call it Psychology The Brain-Secret-Revealer? Its concepts have turned into the categories that ordinary people use to interpret the world - extraverts, ingroups, the unconscious, IQ, Pavlovian conditioning - but do they call it Psychology The Useful Concept Creator? But you do one (thousand) bad social priming studies! I had the same complaint in In Continued Defense Of Effective Altruism. Nobody has the…