Kahneman's getting a little more press lately, with a bestseller on the shelves. His story is interesting - he was given a lot of responsibility at a young age

Kahneman's getting a little more press lately, with a bestseller on the shelves. His story is interesting - he was given a lot of responsibility at a young age, because he was doing officer evaluation for the newly-formed Israeli army. He has to produce real, repeatable results, and has a wealth of data to test his earlier conclusions, and perhaps the sheer newness of the entire enterprise makes it safer for him to be honest. In a few years he realizes the vacuity of his own psychological results, and by implication, many of the methods he's been taught. That's what kicks off his whole program of investigating sources of bias and error. Would this have ever happened in a standard academic setting?