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Cosmology is the first field which comes to mind; it fits your criteria, but is far harder (as a science) than psychology and far more reliable. Psychologists c
by myWindoonn 5y ago
Cosmology is the first field which comes to mind; it fits your criteria, but is far harder (as a science) than psychology and far more reliable. Psychologists can't define "mind" and change their entire profession every few decades, but "sun" has not changed much as a phenomenon for a long time.
The reason why the social sciences (social psychology, criminology, economics, advertising/marketing) are hit hardest by the replication crisis is because they were not actually sciences! They are ways for our society to police its members' behavior (relationships, crime, money, attention) and they pretend to be science in order to gain prestige.
There's also, finally, the matter of scale and relevance. When a chemist reports that a rare chemical reaction doesn't perform in the lab as expected, then this is a failed replication; however, chemistry labs regularly replicate entire textbooks' worth of material for entire classes of undergraduates. Meanwhile, some of the most important claims in psychology, like priming, are failing to replicate.