Everything you say is true, probably for all fields. There is undeserved faith in peer review processes (https://www.vox.com/2015/12/7/9865086/peer-review-scien

Everything you say is true, probably for all fields. There is undeserved faith in peer review processes (https://www.vox.com/2015/12/7/9865086/peer-review-science-problems https://www.vox.com/2015/12/7/9865086/peer-review-science-pr...), inadequate understanding of statistics (or maybe purposefully poor application of statistics), poor incentive structures, and other issues that corrupt "science". This is why I always cringe a little when someone says "trust the science". Yet at the same time, I think psychology is especially susceptible to these problems, because it is a more fuzzy "social science" (more like sociology, less like physics). It suffers immense bias due to those who select themselves into the field and also how they study it. Psychology researchers typically conduct non-generalizable experiments with immense sampling bias (https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/non-weird-science/202004/psychologys-weird-problem https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/non-weird-science/20...). Then there are replication problems (https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/psychologys-replication-crisis-real/576223/ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/psycholo...). They're also not making any progress in addressing these issues because of meta cultural problems about acknowledging problems in the field (https://www.wired.com/2016/03/psychology-crisis-whether-crisis/ https://www.wired.com/2016/03/psychology-crisis-whether-cris...).