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the audience of this book is clearly lay people with no idea what's going on in science and you know what, fine, this is probably decent for that audience, in the same way that middle school teaches you a lot things that aren't really correct but whatever, you have to start somewhere. this is a sloppy presentation of the mainline narrative that emerged from the replication crisis that is uncritical and myopic. the presentation of statistics is particularly painful. it is hard to take seriously an account that presents psychology's problems as if they are universal or new; that sees science as producing results that either correct or incorrect, rather than subject to uncertainty; that centers p-hacking and replicability as the fundamental problems; that offers no analysis that hasn't already been rehashed umpteen times; that fails to cover the vast, exciting and recent meta-scientific literature (from within psychology itself!); that... the list goes on. this book irritated the shit out of me