Who was this? Ezra's not that tall. What the hell was that aspirational

mic placement? I don't know. He can't. He can't trust Ezra.

Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Vox Media Podcast Network.

Here today with Julia Beluz and Brian Resnick from the Science Team as well as

Darryland, it has definitely been like a number of days since we last recorded a

podcast. Yes, definitely. So much time. Time has passed. We're not, you know, just

banking episodes on evergreen topics. Meanwhile amazingly, both Matt and I are

recording this podcast despite the fact that both of us are on vacation right

now. Yes, it's it's Maracas. No, so we have been talking about broaching this

the subject for a while because you know on the Weeds we often talk about

different kinds of studies and papers and things in social science. We've got a

lot of sort of interesting empirical results that you know smart people kind of

cook up with different experimental designs and we talk about them and then you

know we kind of just like move on. You know we like have a good discussion about

like what's true and then we just kind of dropped the subject and I guess this

turned out to be like not great scientific practice.

Turns out oftentimes things are discovered in academic studies and then when

people look back it's maybe not true. They get undiscovered. Right. And this is

where they're like asterisk asterisk asterisk.

Hashtag fake news fake science.

Fake news. So I mean this is what's called replication right. It's like I do an

experiment and say I have a result and in theory like you should go be able to

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