The Replication Crisis in the Social Sciences and the Medical Sciences

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Since the nineteenth century, social sciences and biological sciences tried to model themselves on that newtonian mechanical, clockwork universe. So they came up with the theory that it's an energy balance disorder. The laws of thermal dynamics had been a great sort of advance in modern physics. And now, if you could measure the energy in and the energy out, then you could generate a hypothesis about obesity.

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