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Superunknown: Scientific Integrity within the Academic and Media Industrial Complexes

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And as it was in the beginning, so shall it be in the end That bullshit is bullshit, it just goes by different names -- The Jam (Also published here: Counterpunch - Superunknown - Kristine Mattis ) You may not recognize names like Amy Cuddy, Kristina Durante, or Brian Wansink but if you listen to NPR, watch TED talks, or read popular online news sites or local and national outlets such as the New York Times, you have probably stumbled across their work. They are among a growing number of academics who have produced one or more exciting, novel, too-amazing-to-be-true research studies that have caught the attention of the media and have been widely disseminated through American culture to the point that we may have internalized their findings as fact. Yet their work has since been debunked, shown to be unscientific and irreproducible. It is all part of what has been dubbed the “replication crisis” in science. Since replication is one of the basic ten