Lagboltz
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I remember reading that an alarmingly large (forgot how large) percentage of psychology research could not be reproduced by others. In most academic fields "publish or perish" holds true, and leads to a lot of panicked iffy results. Fortunately after a time, truer science emerges. It can take a long time, like the age old, "you must drink 8 glasses of water everyday" meme had no basis but held on for many decades.Why So Much Science is Wrong, False, Puffed, or Misleading | The Daily Economy
"The book, while scary and disheartening, is truth-seeking and ultimately optimistic. Ritchie doesn’t come to bury science; he comes to fix it. 'T ...www.aier.org