Daryl Bem Proved ESP Is Real, Science Is Broken (opens in new tab)

>For the rest of that semester and into the one that followed, Wu and the other women tested hundreds of their fellow undergrads. Most of the subjects did as they were told, got their money, and departed happily. A few students—all of them white guys, Wu remembers—would hang around to ask about the research and to probe for flaws in its design. Wu still didn’t believe in ESP, but she found herself defending the experiments to these mansplaining guinea pigs. The methodology was sound, she told them—as sound as that of any other psychology experiment.

Calling the act of being skeptical towards a study designed to demonstrate ESP "mansplaining" is about as disingenuous as it gets.

Just like calling every person who can whip up some html and JavaScript an "Engineer" is bad for the reputation of Engineering as a whole, so calling everything that has statistics and is peer reviewed "science" is bad for the reputation of science. I think a lot of damage to science has come from psychology and "social sciences" in corroboration with the popular press when one-off studies are popularized with supposedly profound implications for our understanding of how humans work, only to be contradicted a few months/years later by a different one-off study.

I think for the sake of our future, we should stop putting both physics which can predict, detect, and verify gravity waves from across the universe, and social sciences which are largely surveys with statistics into the same bucket.

hoax

This is a interesting site on a tangentially related issue: http://www.joseduarte.com/