The article expresses an opinion that one of the major reasons of the poor condition of Soviet psychology is the crisis of empirical, mainly experimental, studies. Their status is extremely low in comparison with theoretical and some practical researches. The low culture of dealing with facts undermines the foundation of both psychological theory and practice, the first being transformed into the stage for ideological speculations, the latter - into a combination of methods to manipulate behavior. The article suggests some measures to improve the order of things in empirical psychology.