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The sciences, psychology among them, do not progress by one discovery after another, researchers updating their beliefs according to evidence, and the results section taking center stage. Instead, the sciences move through argumentation-argumentation that is often supposed to be based on evidence. Throughout the over 100 years of psychology as a discipline, however, there have been a number of arguments that come up time and again. These arguments are wrong. The focus of this paper is not on showing one field or topic is or is not correct, but instead to provide a comprehensive framework of arguments that will always be incorrect *of necessity* in the hopes psychologists can avoid making those arguements in the future **Purpose** Organize a manuscript providing a detailed list of arguments that continue to be put forward in psychological science that are wrong, provide historical evidence of the arguments being put forward or evidence of their endorsement, and explicate how those arguments are necessarily wrong. As long as these arguments keep sending researchers down false paths, psychological science's progress will continue to be slowed. The goal of such a manuscript is *not* to provide any sort of commentary on specific topic areas. Thus, there will be no 'vindication' or 'takedown' of research topics like: wwhether intelligence is real, are stereotypes accurate, is ego depletion a real effect, does power posing work, or any other type of specific topic area. **The list** Below is a list of the topic areas under consideration. More will be added as contributors join the project. *Arguments that need to die* Measurement is applying numerals to objects. You can control your way to causality in cross-sectional multiple regression. Human Evolution had no effect on the way our minds work. Developmental stability means immutability [converse: developmental instability means strong mutability]. High heritability means immutability [converse: low heritability means strong mutability]. Genes do not play a role in human psychology. Cultural effects mean there are no human universals. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cb47crrTjNs88DiLlkhVXTLdiBYpBI7ZHtvKusMuH8g/edit?usp=sharing
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