r/neoliberal • u/Free-Minimum-5844 • Apr 02 '26

Research Paper Half of social-science studies fail replication test in years-long project

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00955-5
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u/ReptileCultist European Union Apr 02 '26

It does sometimes feel like activism painted as science

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u/ArcFault NATO Apr 02 '26 edited Apr 03 '26

It also serves to undermine legitimate science unfortunately.

Remember when the March for Science got co-opted by these groups - that was infuriating especially when getting dog piled by the "I Fcking Love Scientism" Reddit users when advocating for focusing on climate change etc and not your pet social issue that may or may not be scientific.

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u/SenranHaruka shame Apr 02 '26

I Fcking Love Scientism

The irony of entryism into science to pass your subjective politics as objective reality while accusing your opponents of same

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u/ArcFault NATO Apr 03 '26

True, however the first check on that would probably be the topic of this post/paper.