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This is quite a thought-provoking article. It's clear that most published science is bogus and that peer review doesn't work. It's also clear that political correctness has crushed the life out of potentially important fields like evolutionary psychology (all the important questions are off-limits because the findings could contradict PC dogma). So alternatives are to be welcomed but we have to acknowledge that they too will be systemically flawed, though for somewhat different reasons. In the end, the real solution will be for everyone to be required to publish raw data sets so that third party verification is always possible. Today, even respected researchers "adjust" their data or simply withhold it altogether - a sure sign something is very rotten in the state of academia.

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Allan Milne Lees
Allan Milne Lees

Written by Allan Milne Lees

Anyone who enjoys my articles here on Medium may be interested in my books Why Democracy Failed and The Praying Ape, both available from Amazon.

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