Flutterby™! : irreproducibility of psychology

New York Times: Academia's Rejection of Diversity, on the irreproducibility of psychology studies:

One of the study’s authors, Philip E. Tetlock of the University of Pennsylvania, put it to me more bluntly. Expecting trustworthy results on politically charged topics from an “ideologically incestuous community,” he explained, is “downright delusional.”

Well, yeah: So much of academia is like a church, dogma repeated because it gains credibility amongst fellow priecests than because it has any basis in fact. In psychology, doubly so.