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Re:Student Loan Debt Is Now as Big as the U.S. Junk Bond Market by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @12:02AM (#15858674)
When you have prominent social scientists arguing that pointing out statistical errors in papers is "Methodological Terrorism" (http://andrewgelman.com/2016/09/21/what-has-happened-down-he...), I call that junk science.

And if social scientists want to "help legitimize science as a process, critial thinking, and to debunk illogical arguments.", they should start with fixing their own reproducibility crisis and p-hacking crisis before instructing other people on science as a process.

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Re:Student Loan Debt Is Now as Big as the U.S. Junk Bond Market by czep on Friday December 08, 2017 @07:22PM (#15883331)
I completely side with Gelman on this issue, but you can't point to this one case to dismiss all of social science. One can find examples of p-hacking, irreproducible research, and fabricated data in any field, but the existence of such does not invalidate the entire discipline.

I am merely cautioning against over generalization that just because there are some high profile examples of bad social science, there is still a lot of very good social science happening and it would be a shame to ignore it.

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