...this amnesia and collective forgetting tends to happen in all fields to some extent...
Well, I think there can an opposite problem that appears looking at these things. Psychology is such garbage, so likely to produce worthless experiments, that those that don't want to call a spade a spade instead try to take all the garbage of the field and average it over all science so that they can have something different to say.
This relates to the "replication crisis" [1]. You can say "The replication crisis is frequently discussed in relation to psychology and medicine..." but also said to extend throughout science. It may indeed extend throughout sciences but including a data group (experimental psychology) that you is garbage isn't necessarily a good way to see what's happening in the rest of science.
And, of course, a field "having amnesia" by itself doesn't necessarily imply any kind of problem. A given practitioner A) can only remember so much and B) benefits from a compact statement of a result, which may be quite different from how the result was originally stated. The math I learned in my MA came from text books that gave self-contained summaries of the various topics, rather than from the original papers the ideas came from and that made it much easier.
Well, I think there can an opposite problem that appears looking at these things. Psychology is such garbage, so likely to produce worthless experiments, that those that don't want to call a spade a spade instead try to take all the garbage of the field and average it over all science so that they can have something different to say.
This relates to the "replication crisis" [1]. You can say "The replication crisis is frequently discussed in relation to psychology and medicine..." but also said to extend throughout science. It may indeed extend throughout sciences but including a data group (experimental psychology) that you is garbage isn't necessarily a good way to see what's happening in the rest of science.
And, of course, a field "having amnesia" by itself doesn't necessarily imply any kind of problem. A given practitioner A) can only remember so much and B) benefits from a compact statement of a result, which may be quite different from how the result was originally stated. The math I learned in my MA came from text books that gave self-contained summaries of the various topics, rather than from the original papers the ideas came from and that made it much easier.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis