What, if so, are th fundamental laws? (Amos)

I know, Amos, you did mean it more as a rhetorical question and you are much more interested in the fundamental flaws of psychology but I pretend it was a real question.

Your reading must have been solely in the soft areas of psychology if you have never encountered a law. (BTW, I guess I share a good deal of your contempt for the models and theories in those soft areas).

So you really have never encountered Fitts' law in movement control which beautifully describes the speed of your mouse movement when you sit in front of your computer? Or the Hicks-Hyman law in choice reaction times? Or Fechner's law in perception or Emmert's law in the same field describing (and explaining) the perceived size of an afterimage? And nobody ever has told you that exactly the same law that governs the radioactive decay predicts the rate of forgetting of nonsense syllables? And, and, and...

These (and similar) laws explain a much smaller range of phenomena than could be wished for but to pretend that that are no lawful relationsships that can be predicted by explanatory models and that can be replicated easily and reliably is (wilfull?) blindness to a very large body of data and theories.

Wolfgang