Correction / counting
One listed Cook paper was mitigation, not endorsement; a welding paper was explicit endorsement. Fraudulent studies have no percentage left to recompute.
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Ideologically-fueled research
Some psychologists pathologize non-leftists to resolve dissonance. System-justification and green “denial” items smuggle values into purported facts.
Read Article →Thoughts on Gelman comment
Political homogeneity threatens social-science validity because ideologies smuggle human-nature assumptions into measures. Diversity is an epistemic tool.
Read Article →Methods
To learn why skeptics think as they do, read their own accounts--not a blog survey that ties them to moon-hoax items almost none of them endorse.
Read Article →No results
Cook raters googled authors and mocked skeptics. Fraud plus an invalid method means there is no 97%--no number at all. Results require methods.
Read Article →Data is often overrated
Invalid studies need no new data to be vacated. Logic can refute Napier & Jost and Lewandowsky; more numbers cannot rescue a validity collapse.
Read Article →Reality is what it is
Unflattering findings about conservatives are not automatically invalid. Reality is whatever it is; Eidelman et al. looks methodologically clean.
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