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This has been an ongoing situation since around 2010. The field has been undergoing a huge shift in terms of re-evaluating research practices and past findings. It genuinely has nothing to do with national politics.

Also, the author is Canadian. So there's that, too.




>This has been an ongoing situation since around 2010.

Exactly. Yet the time to declare your change of heart is somehow now :)

>Also, the author is Canadian. So there's that, too.

Search for his grants brings grants from US, he studied and did PhD in US and still affiliated with NYU, and the major and most valuable part of his network of academia connections is US, his private foundation in USA, etc. If he isn't in-line with the prevalent winds in US, he will be reduced to nothing, just a professor in some Uni, not a renown researcher with his own Wikipedia page, grants and conferences in US, etc.


FFS, This is in response to new data from a Registered Replication Report that is still in preprint.


Yes, man, for 20+ years you are peddling some politically favored theory, supposedly doing experimental studies (by 2013 already getting at least $3.75M dollars in grants - https://www.apa.org/monitor/2013/09/apf-grant ), and you have no idea that your theory is total BS until suddenly somebody else failed to reproduce yours and/or similar studies, and that is exactly when political climate is changing 180. It isn't a science, it is an ideology department serving whatever political regime is in power at any given moment.


Once again, that is incorrect. It's all spelled out if you read what he wrote.




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