I was thinking about why psychohistory has been largely ingored by contemporary scientists, when I started thinking about a short story written by Asimov, know as The Dead Past. In The Dead Past, humans figure out how to see the past using a method known as chronoscopy. However, the government tries to hide everything about chronoscopy since it would allow users to see everything upto a second ago anywhere. This, in a sense would allow anyone to see anything and spy on those they want. For this reason, in order to avoid violation of privacy on a mass scale, the government tries to make it so that no one has access to chronoscopy.

I belive Psychohistory has the same implications that chronoscopy had. If everyone could tell the future, it would be mayhem. Also, by allowing everyone to see the future, you would change the future, making the science of psychohistory invalid. Therefore, it makes sense that if true axioms to psychohistory were ever discovered, they would have to be kept hidden from the masses in order for them to work. For this reason, I believe that there is a group out there (maybe even the government itself), which has discovered psychohistory and has kept it hidden. What do you think?

I have often thought about that idea and have decided that even with that slight chance that psychohistory has been discovered, though used secretly, that we should still advance this science for the higher percentage chance that no one has considered psychohistory.

-Psychology Lover