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Fox News is not in the business of science. I used the term "related fields" as a euphemism for Econ and Psych because I didn't want to get drawn into a demarcation debate.

Wherever the line is drawn, the dishonesty of some random Fox News chart is not related to the honesty or dishonesty of actual scientific research.

The much bigger problem in science is error.



" didn't want to get drawn into a demarcation debate."

Econ and Psych really do lie in a gray area, and by avoid the demarcation debate you completely miss the relevance of the issue at hand.

If policy makers weren't using this study to justify more austerity, then we probably wouldn't have such a prolonged discussion.




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