What are your favourite examples of TOO BIG TO FAIL #ideas in #science and the #humanities?
i.e. theories on which there's too much investment (money, careers, ideology, institutions) for us to accept they are bunk: #NFT would be a great example in tech; #IQ a good example in psychology.
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@gvdr #BMI. For years and years we’ve all known it’s a terrible way to measure obesity, they were never intended to be used to measure individual obesity anyway, and yet they still persist somehow.
Honorable mention to massive amounts of junk #forensics that are still widely used in policing and court despite having essentially zero evidentiary support.
