Cause for concern …

… We’re told to ‘follow the science’ — yet some of it is just plain wrong.

Research on “implicit bias” drives all sorts of campus and government policies on race and diversity, but the Implicit Association Test underlying it turns out to be highly dubious. In 2012, the firm Amgen set out to reproduce the results in 53 “landmark” studies in hematology and oncology. Only six of them replicated.

Norbert Wiener address this problem in 1947: THE HUMAN USE OF HUMAN BEINGS.