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Comment by throw4847285

4 months ago

Unfortunately, I think this article is not pessimistic enough. If it were true that academic fraud is important for establishing the boundaries of respectable scholarship in a field, then behavioral economics wouldn't exist anymore. And evolutionary psychology would be a fraction of its current size.

Trendiness trumps all notions of academic rigor, and as long as a field "feels like" it's on the cutting edge it can go pretty far before collapsing in on itself.

I'm wondering how someone knows the size of the field of evolutionary psychology and what it should be instead of what it is so well that they feel no evidence is necessary. Are you in the field yourself? Or do you have questions about evolution in general? Or none of the above?