Aren't a lot of psychological studies coming under scrutiny for lack of reproducibility, and now the government is using them in policy design ?
This is more than a little unsettling.
My concern is where the behavioral insights are coming from, if they are coming from stringent reproducible tests, that's great. But many recent articles about psychological studies suggest there is crisis in that field, and so called insights need to taken with some salt, especially if the goal is to create national policy.