The study that found half of all social science papers cannot be replicated also found that NO education research could be replicated
Junk research in the soft sciences
In June 2026, I reported on a major 7-year study of more than 3,900 social science papers that found that more than half could not be replicated, suggesting that a very very large percentage of social science research is junk and should be ignored.
A recent close analysis of that paper, shown in the graph above, reveals even more starkly how worthless some of this “science” is. In the field of education, of the six papers the researchers attempted to replicate, only three could be “approximately replicated” (which the researchers appeared to consider largely unsatisfactory). No papers could be confidently replicated. In the field of business, of the six papers tested only one could be replicated, with two others getting that “approximately replicated” label.
In sociology the result was only slightly better but still terrible, with only two of nine papers replicated with confidence.
Meanwhile, about 60% of the papers tested in economic and political science could be replicated.
These are all the soft sciences, but it appears that education, business, and sociology are softer than others. Or to put it more bluntly, the research in these fields is likely all worthless. Education and sociology have been poisoned by Marxist critical race theory now for years. The education field in particular has become more interested in teaching kids the queer agenda and telling lies of oppression about western civilization than teaching the three “R’s”. This inability to replicate any of its junk research shows how bankrupt this part of academia has become.
Business research meanwhile has been equally poisoned by Marxist ideology and the bad business practices of the MBA academic world. No wonder modern corporations so routinely treat their customers like dirt, and fail so spectacular. Their Ivy League managers care only about DEI and ending capitalist oppression and nothing about running a company effectively while creating good products people will want to buy.
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Sociology has infected everything else, and should only be considered electives, not core curriculum…look what they did to math:
https://up-ship.com/blog/?p=50337
Related: Its all about cheating one way or another.
CHEATING IS MANDATORY (PASS THE SAVE AMERICA ACT!)
https://www.sigma3ioc.com/post/cheating-is-mandatory-pass-the-save-act
Regrettably, my own profession, engineering, has been similarly contaminated by such nonsense.
I no longer practice, though I still maintain my membership. Periodically, I get notices about professional development courses and, increasingly, they seem to be quite loopy. I get the impression that the instructors are radical feminists or “land back” natives.
Perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised if, one day, I hear of course subjects such as, say, blaming Bernoulli’s Equation for white patriarchal oppression or that Fourier series were responsible for the slave trade.
The destruction of our children is not accidental.
A 5 minute video from American economics professor Peter St Onge
“1-in-5 College Students Now Reads at the Level of a 10-Year-Old”
https://rumble.com/v7d049q-1-in-5-college-students-now-reads-at-the-level-of-a-ten-year-old.html
A summary of the points he makes:
• 1-in-5 college students does math and reading at primary school levels
• Public school spending has doubled to almost $18,000 per student
• Budget goes up, education goes down
• 1 in 4 of math illiterate students had received perfect math scores in high school
• At Berkley 30% of students are deficient in calculus, forcing professors to re-teach material they were supposed to have already passed
• At Harvard professors are shortening readings because they find students cannot handle complex prose or sustained attention
• How did we get here? Progressives captured public schools turning them into indoctrination centers
• One study found public schools swing students 20 points Democrat compared to private and religious schools
• Last year 23 Baltimore schools had zero percent of students proficient in math
• In Detroit 96% of students lack proficiency in math, 95% cannot read
• Baltimore and Detroit spend 1/3 more per student than the rest of the country
• Because of this 9 in 10 colleges have eliminated standardized testing and instead of essays and soft assessments which also lets them dodge the Supreme Court ban on racial preferences
• The percentage of students with A or A+ doubled in the last 10 years
• 54% of high school students had straight As in math (even though 1 in 5 are at 10-year-ols level)
• At Yale 79% of students get straight As
• Since ChatGPT grades in classes like Creative Writing jumped 30%
• “The solution is easy: Give power back to parents instead of communist education unions”
• For universities the solution is return to standardized testing and in-person proctored exams
• America will not remain the top economy in the world if students are being indoctrinated instead of educated
• If things don’t change an unskilled Gen Z will continue to vote to burn it all down
The educational system was damaged well before DEI.
I graduated from high school more than half a century ago. Shortly after that, schools allowed calculators into classrooms. Who needs to know how to do simple arithmetic with pencil and paper when a machine can do it for you?
It’s nearly 50 years since I finished my B. Sc. and a few years ago, I was working on my first master’s degree. I was a teaching assistant for a freshman engineering course and I found that many of the students had a poor grasp of trigonometry, something was fundamental to what was being taught. (I had to show one young chap how sine, cosine, and tangent were figured out during one tutorial session.)
It was also around that time that engineering departments made one of their biggest mistakes by hiring professors straight out of university. The attitude seemed to be that one didn’t need industrial experience to teach (which, to a large extent, was true if one simply followed what was written in the textbook) and “industry will teach them what they need to know” (not always the case).
Then came the doctrine of “student as customer”, where the professor or instructor was expected to “deliver learning which meets or exceeds the needs and expectations of the customers”. So, forget about standards.
But, governments also adopted that approach. Graduates are invited to fill out a “student satisfaction” survey. The purpose is to award those institutions and departments that score the highest with “gravy” funding, which gives the associated administrators bragging rights. (There would always be government money to keep the lights on.)
Add to that the policy of cramming as many students through. When I was an engineering undergraduate in the early to mid-1970s, it was common that incoming freshmen were told to look to one’s left and to one’s right because 4 years later, one of those three would finally graduate. (At my alma mater, a 60% washout rate between the freshman and sophomore years was not unusual back then.)
Nope. Can’t do that no more. It might “discourage” students. (I wasn’t discouraged–I thought “Holy Moses! These guys are serious!” and proceeded accordingly because I didn’t want to fail.)
Unfortunately, there’s been no improvement in the last few decades. About 20 years ago, I was interviewed to teach freshman engineering courses for a university transfer program. I was required to give a lecture on a certain technical topic. I used a whiteboard and scribbled all over it. I was asked afterward why I didn’t use PowerPoint and the interview committee didn’t like my answer. I learned the stuff without PP, so I didn’t see the need for it. Besides, try and use PP to explain something to worker on a shop floor when a sketch on a piece of paper will more than suffice.
Considering what’s been happening on university campuses nowadays, I’m glad I never became a professor.
BMJ,
“ it was common that incoming freshmen were told to look to one’s left and to one’s right because 4 years later, one of those three would finally graduate. … I wasn’t discouraged–I thought “Holy Moses! These guys are serious!” and proceeded accordingly because I didn’t want to fail.”
Similar experience, different reaction. I thought to myself, “What have I gotten myself into?”
“… try and use PP to explain something to worker on a shop floor when a sketch on a piece of paper will more than suffice.”
College summer job, my boss had a tablet of “talking paper.” It was a regular quadrille grid paper, but he used it almost every time he explained something to someone. That was a beautiful lesson, and I have kept pens and paper with me ever since. Some cultures talk with their hands, engineers talk with their sheets of paper.
Come to think of it, sketching was one of the lessons in my “introduction to engineering class” freshman year in college. Especially to teach the skill of drawing a straight line. Or at least straight enough.
Which reminds me: the last I heard, engineering still had only 15% women in the classes. How can we have DIE when the target audience does not cooperate?
I do that at my job constantly. So often it’s easier to sketch something out rather than attempt to describe it and risk confusion. I also do that outside of the office though.
Yep. My university had tons of programs exclusively for female engineering students, but did not have enough women in the department to fill even a single class, let alone a club for women in engineering. That in spite of lavish funding, support, and good treatment from fellow students. They just weren’t interested.
BMJ:
We were allowed to have heavily crippled calculators for trigonometry and calculus, but we were heavily encouraged to do everything by hand.
“I graduated from high school more than half a century ago. Shortly after that, schools allowed calculators into classrooms.”
Programmables were available my last year of high school, and banned for exams. I learned later that you can put all the ‘cheats’ you want in the machine; you still have to understand when, and how, to use them. Automation aids the effort, but doesn’t replace it.
The latest propaganda
https://phys.org/news/2026-07-cautions-spur-inequality.html
This junk has to stop
Caught
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qJNbNECQNUY&ra=m
MeWho?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9q0xw494vyo