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by jrajav 377 days ago
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.

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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.

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

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