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Brian D. Earp
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@Yale; @UniofOxford; @hastingscenter; @TheAtlantic - psychology, philosophy of science, bioethics, tech, politics, gender and sexuality, etc. RT ≠ endorsement.

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    1. Brian D. Earp‏ @briandavidearp Oct 3

      criterion in, not only psychology, but MANY 'more serious' scientific fields for decades, despite the fact that the way it's characteristically been (mindlessly) used has been as a kind of statistical magic that produces loads of nonsense 'findings' that are just noise ...

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    2. Brian D. Earp‏ @briandavidearp Oct 3

      ... and with respect to peer review as an ineffective quality control mechanism, that is absolutely not some special feature of 'critical studies' journals; rather, pre-publication peer review is a deeply broken, deeply unreliable, easily gamed, highly political mechanism ...

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    3. Brian D. Earp‏ @briandavidearp Oct 3

      in just about EVERY discipline; there have been many studies showing that it is not good at weeding out garbage in, e.g., medicine (see "Classical Peer Review: An Empty Gun" by former BMJ editor Richard Smith …https://breast-cancer-research.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/bcr2742 …). In psychology the Stapel Affair showed ...

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    4. Brian D. Earp‏ @briandavidearp Oct 3

      ... that, as long as you play to what's 'sexy' in your field given prevailing orthodoxies, you can *literally make up data* and get published for years in top journals, and only get found out due to whistleblowing (see "Myth of Self Correction in Science https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26168129 )

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    5. Brian D. Earp‏ @briandavidearp Oct 3

      ... and in my own research, I analyze how extremely poorly reasoned arguments based on selective citation etc. can end up being official policy of such 'serious' scientific organization as the AAP (see "Cultural Bias in American Medicine" https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316527603_Cultural_bias_in_American_medicine_the_case_of_infant_male_circumcision …), CDC ...

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    6. Brian D. Earp‏ @briandavidearp Oct 3

      ... (see https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17441692.2016.1184292 …), World Health Organization (see https://www.academia.edu/10197867/Between_moral_relativism_and_moral_hypocrisy_reframing_the_debate_on_FGM_ …) etc. So, bad reasoning, unfalsifiable claims, statistical rituals, ideologically driven work, politicking, etc. (see "The Unbearable Asymmetry of Bullshit" https://quillette.com/2016/02/15/the-unbearable-asymmetry-of-bullshit/ …) ...

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    7. Brian D. Earp‏ @briandavidearp Oct 3

      ... is a MAJOR concern in psychology, neuroscience, economics, medicine, biology, and many other fields, which the 'hoax' authors seem much less concerned about. Now, I am fairly well versed in feminist philosophy, gender studies, etc., and sometimes contribute to those ...

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    8. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 3
      Replying to @briandavidearp

      Not necessarily less concerned about. Just a different kind of problem. In the same way, people looking at replication failures in those fields may not also concern themselves with the development of the current wave of pomo epistemology & ethics in activism-scholarship.

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    9. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 3
      Replying to @HPluckrose @briandavidearp

      We are all, from one area or another, concerned with epistemology & liberal ethics. This doesn't mean we don't care about (as one magazine suggested), replication crises or unfounded scholarly claims in cold fusion or laissez-faire economics. We just don't have that background.

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    10. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 3
      Replying to @HPluckrose @briandavidearp

      I very much hope that people with knowledge in those areas would address & seek to improve knowledge production within them and hopefully, they'd be glad we're looking at faulty epistemology & dodgy social justice ideology, how it gets legitimised & how it impacts culture.

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      Brian D. Earp‏ @briandavidearp Oct 3
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      I certainly hear u on the matter of needing to focus on those areas one is close enough to to engage with at a sufficiently high level 2 show where the problems lie; & like I say I hope your intervention sets off a much-needed discussion & leads to genuine improvement in quality

      8:27 PM - 3 Oct 2018 from New Haven, CT
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