A good example of a recent failure, within the mainstream scientific community, is the "Ego Depletion Effect". Basically, it's a behavior wished into existence by bad data analysis (called P-hacking) that tricked the entire Psychology academic complex for several years. Replication studies were eventually done, and they revealed the EDE wasn't real. This was so alarming that the researchers tried to replicate a randomized sample of studies, and found that 80% of them couldn't be replicated. Similar issues exist in physiology, cosmology, and theoretical physics, just to name a few. An example from the field of physics is that researchers are obsessed with building particle colliders when there are equally as promising... (read more)
A good example of a recent failure, within the mainstream scientific community, is the "Ego Depletion Effect". Basically, it's a behavior wished into existence by bad data analysis (called P-hacking) that tricked the entire Psychology academic complex for several years. Replication studies were eventually done, and they revealed the EDE wasn't real. This was so alarming that the researchers tried to replicate a randomized sample of studies, and found that 80% of them couldn't be replicated. Similar issues exist in physiology, cosmology, and theoretical physics, just to name a few. An example from the field of physics is that researchers are obsessed with building particle colliders when there are equally as promising... (read more)