Actually, the psychology studies might not even be poor research. Another group of scholars subsequently examined the investigation itself—this is how science works, after all—and concluded that it was, in the words of the Harvard scholar Gary King, “completely unfair—and even irresponsible.” King noted that while reproducibility is an “incredibly important” question that should “obsess” scholars, “it isn’t true that all social psychologists are making stuff up.”12 The whole business, including a rebuttal to the rebuttal, is now where it belongs: in the pages of the journal Science, where
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