Some philistine wrote a piece in The Guardian today about Sigmund Freud's analysis of Leonardo da Vinci, and, as usual, wasted no time or effort in putting the boot in.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2010/mar/26/art-sigmund-freud-leonardo-da-vinci
I commented:
The usual anti-scientific crap you get from flat-earthers ready to deny at any cost the significance of unconscious drives and motives in human activity.
The reason Freud's contribution is spat on while Einstein's isn't is that psychology is a much more social science than physics. The established flat-earthers have much more clout in relation to psychology. When they deny the relevance of "psychology" they are really denouncing the relevance of hidden mechanisms in society and life.
This denunciation still affects Darwin and evolutionary theory, although God is hardly a visible factor.
The other great scientist who revealed hidden and unconscious mechanisms working implacably to shape our society and world - Karl Marx - is perhaps even more vilified and misrepresented than Freud by bone-headed bourgeois bigotry.
As Marx wrote in Capital I: "Sie wissen das nicht, aber sie tun es." [They don't know what they're doing, but they do it.]
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