[rotten]

It's the old " I never used algebra in my job, but I did use things the football coach taught me" mindset.

[dani__german]

considering that ~50% of all of our new scientific studies annually don't replicate, its far far worse than you might think.

[elashri]

Any citation for your "exact" claim here??

[jrajav]

Reading a few headlines about psychology and extrapolating it out to everything, including hard sciences, most likely.

Ironically, shocking claims about the scope of the replication crisis are themselves difficult to replicate.

[const_cast]

Yes, exactly. Medicine is progressing very quickly and I don't understand where these people get this idea that modern science is fake.

We have big and complex problems, sure. Yeah we're taking a stab at more complex issues, like anxiety and depression. Which, might I remind everyone, had a solution of "idk lock them up I guess" until about 40 years ago.

[AStonesThrow]

“Ah! I see you’ve got the machine that goes PING!”

https://youtu.be/VQPIdZvoV4g?si=19OCFyMXkpS96RWe