[undreren]

Sloppy science is done in every field, natural sciences included. The article even leads with the statement that psychology experience more reversals due to being exceptionally open in terms of sharing code and data compared to other social sciences.

Reversals through replication failure is scientific progress. Your “better” question is nothing of the sort, just lazy contrarianism.

[mcswell]

Two fields which claim some degree of scientific approach which are probably (IMO) worse than psychology: political science and anthropology.

I of course exempt my own field, linguistics, which is the most scientific of all. (Yes, that is a joke.)

[RcouF1uZ4gsC]

> Reversals through replication failure is scientific progress.

Not really. If a flat earther comes and says that the earth is flat, and you take him up in a airplane and show him the curvature of the earth, he can’t say that flat earth study is science because “reversals through replication failure is scientific progress”

There is a difference between making real scientific contributions through careful research, trial design, and statistical analysis, and spouting BS.

After a bunch of high profile reversals, psychology is looking more like the spouting BS group that then justifies themselves by saying that clearing up BS is scientific advancement.

If we want society to be able to actually use science to make decisions, then we have to be careful to differentiate science from BS.

[derbOac]

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