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* In ''[[Bones]]'', Temperance Brennan takes constant digs at psychology, saying it's unscientific...this despite constantly being proven wrong, or using principles from it herself (with bizarre justifications about how it's not psychology), or even the obvious effectiveness of [[The Profiler|psychological profiler]] Dr. Sweets. This is frequently lampshaded by other characters.

** This behavior was actually the subject of a [[Take That]] in an episode where Booth and Bones head to a mental hospital where Bones makes pointed [[Take That|remarks]] to the head psychologist there. Eventually after a while of this the psychologist finally gets sick of this and points out that while her expertise in the dead is all well and dandy, he's using his training to help 'living people' who desperately need it, soft science or not.

* ''[[Skin Horse]]'', [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/skinhorse/series.php?view=archive&chapter=33564#strip5 here].

* Heartily mocked [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20050924.html in the commentary of] one ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' strip.

* Inverted in [http://harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=231 this] [[Hark! A Vagrant]] strip. [[H. G. Wells]] seems a little hard on ''hard'' science.

* One ''[[Girl Genius]]'' strip involves a mad social scientist griping about the fact that the Sparks who go into the hard sciences get all the funding.

{{quote|'''Scientist''': I told the Baron, give me a thousand orphans, a hedge maze, and enough cheese, and I can...}}

 

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