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Re:Two decades of Alzheimer’s research was based on delibera... by nemo44x on Sunday July 24, 2022 @10:06AM (#32213630)
Social sciences have a reproducibility problem and is littered with fraudulent data. Of course most of it isn’t really science but they (social scientists, politicians, activists) that rely on it to justify applications of power insist it is. Because otherwise it’s just anecdotal, which it mainly is.

“Sokal Squared” is a great example of the problems in the field.

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Re:Two decades of Alzheimer’s research was based on delibera... by themitigating on Monday July 25, 2022 @06:36AM (#32222648)
Do you have evidence showing this?
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Re:Two decades of Alzheimer’s research was based on delibera... by nemo44x on Monday July 25, 2022 @04:07PM (#32230225)
I literally gave you a place to look in the post, Sokal Squared so here's a link to help you along.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grievance_studies_affair

Regarding the reproducibility crisis:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis

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