Say this much for the \u201creproducibility crisis\u201d in science: It\u2019s poorly timed. At the same instant that a significant chunk of elected and appointed policymakers seem to disbelieve the science behind global warming, and a significant chunk of parents seem to disbelieve the science behind vaccines \u2026 a bunch of actual scientists come along and point out that vast swaths of the social sciences don\u2019t stand up to scrutiny.