Yes, I expect some comments (cough, cough) must be tough to read. I hope you can take a little comfort from the fact that most folks think highly of Lenny Jason and respect his research.
My request was just that people be respectful and don't overgeneralise. I think it's fine to have a view of what a discipline is about (good or bad) and also what science is and should be. You don't have to be a scientist. Many posts here were very interesting, and well thought out. But others just said psychology is bullshit and psychologists not as smart as people who do real science.
If you would like my view, here it is.
* A lot of psychology research is very badly done. I have low confidence in many of the findings that we have obtained in the last few decades. In particular, publication practices need to be overhauled, and so do some of the standard statistical approaches. If you'd like to know more about this, I'd be happy to share.
* A lot of research in other disciplines is also poor too. But sometimes it's harder for a layperson to see where the flaws lie. Jonathan Edwards describes poor work in his area as "immunobabble". My own area, which is neuroscience and neuropsychology, is generally believed to be "real science". But I can tell you first hand, a lot of the work is very poor.
* Science is not a topic area, but an approach to asking questions. In some disciplines not generally considered to be science, there is research that adopts a scientific method and does it very well, such as archaeology.
* Science is also not just about observing and reporting factual information. Its about developing theories that account for that information, and making predictions about other things we might expect to see. Therefore, it always involves theorising. The more complex the area, the wider the gap between observation and theory. And the bigger the risk of getting it wrong. Examples of highly complex disciplines include quantum physics, immunology, psychology and neuroscience.
* I'm sympathetic to
@alex3619 's view that some of the weakest research in the behavioural sciences comes from the domain of psychiatry. I think perhaps many psychiatrists aren't trained to think critically about their discipline. But I would never say that all psychiatry research is poor. Some of it is excellent.