{"id":27430,"date":"2015-10-23T22:16:03","date_gmt":"2015-10-24T04:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=27430"},"modified":"2015-10-23T22:16:03","modified_gmt":"2015-10-24T04:16:03","slug":"making-it-all-up-the-behavioral-sciences-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/10\/making-it-all-up-the-behavioral-sciences-scandal.html","title":{"rendered":"“Making It All Up: The Behavioral Sciences Scandal”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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At the Stanford Linear Accelerator
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Behavioral science research, it turns out, has very, very little in common with the kind of science done at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I read this stunning, devastating, article while flying over Nevada today:<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/articles\/making-it-all_1042807.html?page=1<\/a><\/p>\n

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If the physical sciences were as ideologically-driven and devoid of rigor as this piece suggests the behavioral sciences to be, I wouldn\u2019t have survived to read it. \u00a0Firemen would still be trying to extinguish the flames from the\u00a0twisted metal of our flying machine at the end of the runway in Salt Lake City.<\/p>\n

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This is a real eye-opener. \u00a0And it was particularly astonishing to see even Stanley Milgram\u2019s famous Yale \u201cobedience experiment\u201d looking more than a little bit flimsy.<\/p>\n

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If you\u2019re at all interested in the social sciences, or even if you\u2019ve just occasionally been aggravated by headlines (\u201cReligious People More Prone to Fear Women\u00a0and Hate Puppies,\u201d say, or \u201cPolitical Conservatives Motivated by Resentment over Defective Childhood Potty Training, Scientists Reveal\u201d) summarizing the latest purportedly scientific research, take the time to read this fascinating essay.<\/p>\n

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Here, by the way, are a couple of likely specimens to which I myself have called attention over the past short while:<\/p>\n

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\u201cStudy Finds People\u2019s Conservative and Liberal Traits Show Up in Their Twitter Vocabulary\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cThere May Be a Scientific Cure for Your Appalling Religious and Political Beliefs\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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Posted from San Francisco, California<\/p>\n

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