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by UncleMeat 549 days ago
It is always amazing to me how many people are willing to say "wow this entire academic field is just garbage and the researchers are making some incredibly childish error" based on what seems just entirely like vibes.

Psych is getting a brunt of this because they have actually done a good thing and funded replication studies, which naturally will produce a bunch of "this fails to replicate" findings. So then you get headlines talking about the replication crisis in psych and then people who maybe took a single class in college a decade ago dismiss the entire field as bogus.

I invite such people to go speak with some CS academics for a better understanding of the mess in our own field.