His comments have ignited a firestorm of criticism from health officials and activists who said his words were unrealistic and unscientific.

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Is it true that talking about mental states is unscientific?

谈论心理状态真的是不科学的吗？

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For one thing, it's a profoundly unscientific doctrine.

一方面,它是种非常不科学的假说

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And what I mean by this is the behaviorists were obsessed with the idea of doing science and they felt, largely in reaction to Freud, that claims about internal mental states like desires, wishes, goals, emotions and so on, are unscientific.

我的意思是,行为主义者沉迷于“科学“的理念之中,难以自拔,他们主要针对的是弗洛依德，他们认为那些所谓的内在心理状态,如欲望，意愿，目标，情感等等，都是不科学的。

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