There is this interesting trend in the social sciences to deny the existence of inconvenient parts of reality. "Oh, my field failed to reproduce an important ex

There is this interesting trend in the social sciences to deny the existence of inconvenient parts of reality. "Oh, my field failed to reproduce an important experiment on one theory (ego depletion) of willpower: therefore willpower doesn't exist, and I will turn this towards a conversation on bargaining which I (as a psychologist/legal/economics scholar) know something about; pay no attention to the fact that I actually named a piece of the brain involved in exerting willpower." Maybe there is no such thing as "willpower." Maybe some dope is indulging in nihilism in an attempt to get us to click on his article. I'm open minded, but I don't think his argument is much good.