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This is just undirected cynicism. It doesn't even engage with anything in the article, which is considerably more in-depth than your comment implies.

While social sciences and behavioural research as a field has its share of issues, to claim it's "all just nonsense and bullshit" is far more nonsense and bullshit. And what's the alternative? "Common sense"? "What my dad told me"? Because that's always on point...

One alternative would be to come up with a name that doesn’t have the word science in it. I nominate Political Science to be the first to go. It’s a combination of history and political philosophy, it’s not science at all.

> The students were told to report every time they thought, “Oops, I shouldn’t do this”

Close enough!

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