Is social science research trustworthy? The economist Noah Smith raises this question in a recent piece entitled “How many of our ‘facts’ about society health, and the economy are fake?” As he points ...

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Igor Grossmann receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Ontario Ministry of Research, Innovation and Science, The John Templeton Foundation, and the ...

Political biases constitute a permanent threat to the validity of social science on politicized issues because: Almost everyone in the social sciences holds politically left beliefs, including an ...