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BSP 83: William Uttal: Is brain imaging the new phrenology?

Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone

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Is There a Replicability Problem in Brain Imaging?

David Frum: The literature in this field is terribly inconsistent. There is a remarkable lack of consistency and lack of replicability in the work that is published all the time. He says there are literally an innumerable number of alternative explanations that could explain what's going on in something. "The only way we can do that would be to open the brain, but when we open the brain it remains functionally closed"

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