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<p>Behavioural science has had a reckoning in the last 10 years</p>

The scandal that rocked behavioural science and sparked revolution

Five years after a widely revered study was debunked as totally bogus, Helen Coffey asks the experts whether trust in the sexiest branch of science has been irrevocably eroded – and how to discern between fact and fiction when bold claims make their way into the mainstream

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