PhysicsForums had a thread on this article back around the time it was published:

http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=182229

The thread contains a link to a paper published in a scientific journal by the article's author (Michael Disney), which is considerably more strident than the article is.

A terrific article about cosmology, a field that contains a surprising number of unanswered questions and parameters without explanation. A candid cosmologist would say, as this article does in essence, "It's embarrassing what we don't know about the universe."

Meanwhile psychiatry and psychology, which don't even shape theories to be ridiculed and dismissed for lack of evidence, tell us in no uncertain terms that we're sick in the head and need drugs and/or therapy.

http://www.cdc.gov/features/mentalhealthsurveillance/

Quote: "... published studies report that about 25% of all U.S. adults have a mental illness and that nearly 50% of U.S. adults will develop at least one mental illness during their lifetime ..."

To me, the fact that half of everyone is now, or at some point in the future will be, diagnosed as mentally ill, calls into question the meaning of "normal". But maybe that's just me. And maybe the existence of official diagnoses like NOS (Not Otherwise Specified) is one of the problems.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_disorder_not_otherw...

Quote: "This diagnosis may be given when no other personality disorder defined in the DSM fits the patient's symptoms."

Well. That's a relief. Certainly better than telling someone there's nothing wrong with him and sending him home.