Doctor Mike

Or, you know, it's like, because I, you know, I faked an experiment or had a non-run replicable sample or I p-hacked my way to it.

So in my research field, that's a real problem, I have to say, because behavioral science has a huge role to play in making life better for you as a clinician, making life better for everybody.

And that's why I'm in the world of public education as opposed to

I mean, I spent many, many years in the salt mines of academic journal article publishing.

And the reason I'm doing what I'm doing now is because I think time is short.

And that's what really keeps me awake.

What's the issue?

Well, part of it is just the way that academia works and academic research works.

You don't get papers published and get promotion and tenure by replicating somebody else's research.

You get it by doing something new and amazing.

You'd think, although it's much easier to just say the marshmallow test is amazing or the marshmallow test is crap, as opposed to actually digging in to actually see what part of it is still valid.

What part can we actually get meaning from and find useful results from that?

Yeah, yeah.

Well, part of it is driven by media, but it's also just by the infrastructure of how we work.

Kind of, although I think that also it's just that we don't have a good way of judging quality in universities.

And so it's peer review.

It's peer review.

It's everything.

Peer review research is everything.

And so universities are like, how do I know that this guy is doing...