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10 years ago, researchers started to notice and get worried about some really rotten things going on at the core of a lot of psychological research. Samin Vazir: This crisis really started getting going in 2011 when this one paper came out that had some really weird claims in it. The methods Bem used? Those weren't absurd. If this paper had more plausible results, like if you sub in ESP for something more normal, it would have been viewed as a great paper.

A decade ago, psychologists realized much of their science was fatally flawed, calling untold numbers of studies into question. Now, some young psychologists are trying to rebuild the foundations of their field. Can they succeed?

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