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John Arnold Made a Fortune at Enron. Now He's Declared War on Bad Science
Wired ^ | 1/22/17 | Sam Apple

Posted on 07/27/2017 7:10:28 AM PDT by Mechanicos

The Reproducibility Project, meanwhile, swelled to include more than 270 researchers working to reproduce 100 psychology experiments—and in August 2015, Nosek revealed its results. Ultimately his army of volunteers could verify the findings of only about 40 percent of the studies. Media reports declared the field of psychology, if not all of science, to be in a state of crisis. It became one of the biggest science stories of the year.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Reference; Science
KEYWORDS: lysinkoism; marxism; science
Some people are fighting the fake science used by the left.
1 posted on 07/27/2017 7:10:28 AM PDT by Mechanicos
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> working to reproduce 100 psychology experiments

That’s anti-science! Accept what the scientific priesthood tells you and do not question anything.


2 posted on 07/27/2017 7:31:03 AM PDT by ArcadeQuarters ("Immigration Reform" is ballot stuffing)
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The real problem is too many college-educated people who need to produce ‘something’ & set up absurd research projects & studies that are meaningless. And then they get them into the media where they influence non-scientifically trained people.

We need more welders & construction workers. Time to end ALL college loans.


3 posted on 07/27/2017 7:39:37 AM PDT by Twotone
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Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert referred to researchers who had tried and failed to replicate the findings of one senior lecturer as:
“shameless little bullies.”
Put a face on it:

4 posted on 07/27/2017 7:40:09 AM PDT by IWontSubmit (2)
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Some people are fighting the fake science used by the left.

I hope he throws some money at the Global Warming charlatans.

5 posted on 07/27/2017 8:26:44 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.L)
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“I hope he throws some money at the Global Warming charlatans.”

I was looking for that too. Supposedly he leans left politically; perhaps investigating the AGW science is a bridge too far...


6 posted on 07/27/2017 9:27:49 AM PDT by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: Mechanicos

bkmk


7 posted on 07/27/2017 9:43:20 AM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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