There has been much discussion lately of the "Replication Crisis" in psychology, especially since the publication of a recent study attempting to replicate 100 well-known psychology experiments. From The Guardian: For more analysis, see Scott Alexander at SlateStarCodex: "If you can't make predictions, you're still in a crisis." (By the way, some fields in psychology,... Read More

I harp on one key issue in philosophy of science a lot because I get a lot of backtalk along the lines of:�Everybody knows that the social sciences are a fraud. They can't predict whether the stock market will go up or down tomorrow, so how you can say that social science data suggests that... Read More