@josh @Herman_Hetherington Wall of text incoming:

Recently we found out the last 20 years of Alzheimer's studies have been a complete waste of money. This happens occasionally in the hard sciences, but in this case it was discovered we based all our research on *lies*. Not just outdated science, but falsified data. The hypothesis was sound, clear up Alzheimer's plaque in the brain and the brain can recover, but after 20 years of data not correlating with the original peer-reviewed report people started investigating and finding that everyone who peer-reviewed the original report was in a small tight-knit group that faked data and signed off on unproven bullshit. 20 years of funding and research from hundreds of colleges based on an intentional lie. This shook the hard sciences to the core, this is a story they are using now, and will use forever, to explain why faking data to support your hypothesis can be devastating.

Now consider the Replication Crisis. 90% of all of Psychology and Sociology cannot be replicated, at all. These aren't real sciences, they're anecdote taken as evidence. A lot of people try to cite """studies""" to support these retarded ideas that women want to get raped and everyone's gay and incestuous.

It's not fucking real. Unless their study involves an actual biologist showing something physically wrong with the brain like Schizophrenia, it's just someone's fantasy being signed off with a degree with the requirement of "show up and type long papers full of padding."