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 experimentsand 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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> working to reproduce 100 psychology experiments
That’s anti-science! Accept what the scientific priesthood tells you and do not question anything.
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.
I hope he throws some money at the Global Warming charlatans.
“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...
bkmk
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