Mark Twain popularized the phrase "lies, damn lies, and statistics" over a hundred years ago. There's never been a time when you could just trust someone sayin

Mark Twain popularized the phrase "lies, damn lies, and statistics" over a hundred years ago. There's never been a time when you could just trust someone saying "studies show", or "experts agree". If you read something like that, you don't already know it to be true, and you have the time and inclination, look it up. This has nothing to do with a reproducibility crisis, or a societal shift and everything to do with me not having the time to to include footnotes with every 2 paragraph comment I make on the internet. >Culturally, we've turned a corner and we need to toss the phrase "studies show" out the window and push back when we hear it in isolation like that. We haven't turned a corner. You're explicitly arguing that we should. Your argument is that society can only be saved if we change our society to enforce your preferred taboos. >It's social science in particular that so many widely accepted beliefs that came from research that turned out to not replicate. So what does it even matter that something is widely believed anymore? Tossing out the last century of social science research probably isn't the best solution to the problem. But hey what do I know.