That is an important heuristic (and upvoted), but I don't think it's one we should endorse without some pretty substantial caveats. If you deprecate any results that strike you as ideologically tainted, and your criteria for "ideologically tainted" are themselves skewed in one direction or another by identity effects, you can easily end up accepting less accurate information than you would by taking every result in the field at face value.

I probably don't need to give any examples.

As The Last Psychiatrist would say, always be thinking about what the author wants to be true.

I think the claim that "those studies sucked" and the accompanying link were in reference to:

the battle to get doctors to acknowledge that their "clinical experience" wasn't better than simple linear models

The linked comment discusses a few different statistical prediction rules, not just wine-tasting. To the extent that the comment identifies systematic flaws in claims that linear models outperform experts, it does somewhat support the claim that "those studies sucked" (though I wouldn't think it supports the claim sufficiently to actually justify making it).

(See Steven's comment, the "those studies sucked" comment was meant to be a reference to the linear model versus expert judgment series, not the psychotherapy studies. Obviously the link was supposed to be representative of a disturbing trend, not the sum total justification for my claims.)

FWIW I still like a lot of H&B research—I'm a big Gigerenzer fan, and Tetlock has some cool stuff, for example—but most of the field, including much of Tversky and Kahneman's stuff, is hogwash, i.e. less trustworthy than parapsychology results (which are generally held to a much higher standard). This is what we'd expect given the state of the social sciences, but for some reason people seem to give social psychology and cognitive science a free pass rather than applying a healthy dose of skepticism. I suspect this is because of confirmation bias: people are already trying to push an ideology about how almost everyone is irrational and the world is mad, and thus are much more willing to accept "explanations" that support this conclusion.

All this rationality organizing talk has to have some misquotes :(