The Importance of Methodological and Measurement Problems

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Psychologists themselves are undermining the very thing that you think we're protecting. When a big conspiracy is exposed, it's the people internally that bring it to light. I kind of wish that we're true. There's these incentives to do fraud or to P-hack. They're present in lots of disciplines,. So, and, you know, people have found fraud in biology, in medicine, as well.

A VBW exclusive report! For years David and Tamler have been a little dismissive of fears about cancel culture in academia but now the SJWs have come for one of our own! We welcome back Yoel Inbar to talk about his experience applying for a position at UCLA psychology only to have his candidacy pulled at the last minute because of remarks he made on his podcast (!) about diversity statements. What does this mean for freedom of expression in academia? Should we advise our students and younger faculty to watch what they say when it comes to politically charged topics? Are they really going to start combing through podcast episodes now – is nothing sacred?

Plus another case of fraud in psychology comes to light courtesy of the Data Colada guys.

Data Colada post about Gino fraud