Academic social psychology is mostly bunk

You may have caught a wireless programme on the BBC Home Service last week in which the Hawthorne effect was debunked. 

Milgram’s notorious  “torture” experiment findings were similarly trashed in The Times yesterday. 

I always suspected that academic social psychology was mostly bunk. 

Two of the most famous studies now appear to demonstrate little more than poor experimental design, a predisposition to conjure corroboration from experimental noise and positive credibility among readers.  

Any guesses as to the next sacred cow to be revealed as horse flesh?