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by nonbel 2774 days ago
No, the best you can do is a find a recent review article.

Only rarely will you find direct replications in the case of medical and social research though, so as a heuristic you can just assume the evidence for everything is weak.

Also, this reminds me of that paper where they "discovered" that if you spray fart smell in a room that people are more disgusted by the thought of a guy rubbing "his bare genitals along the kitten’s body". https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2562923/