Emil O W Kirkegaard

I don't get why unis don't have a process to expurgate faculty members, even with tenure, who are unrepentant and hostile when their work is exposed as fraud or recklessness bordering fraud.

Well, she isn't fraudulent as in making data up, as far as we know. She's just regular bad social psychologist, 1000s of those. Universities don't have strong ability to eject faculty because this would be abused for political reasons quickly.

[The corollary I had in mind was that being a "really bad social scientist" is in a sense worse than fraud, as it implies you're not even competent enough to properly defraud people. & re expulsion, companies fire incompetent people all the time. Works well.]

Problem here is that almost the entire field of social psychology has been (and for the most part still is) so incompetent that, even though it essentially has done (and will do) nothing but defraud the public, it is very difficult to justify singling out just one bad actor.

Good point -- I would much prefer a systematic, institutional reform such that good work that advances our understanding is incented, rather than TED-talk pablum.

I would prefer that too, although I'm more pessimistic that the problems in social psych run too deep for it to accomplish any real science in the coming decades. Over-reliance and pathologically vague theory and folk-psychology, no real control, phony measurement, and etc.

I suspect we'll see progress from other departments (similar to how linguistics, psych, neuro, etc. reaped the benefits of sociobiology where the bio department didn't) -- I think I tweeted before re: how having separate departments can help prevent a standstill.

Does Amy know that anyone may correct a Wikipedia entry?