The Wire warned us about fraud in academia (sort of)

[@Ericisnotachannel]

I once heard a professor say, "You could write a 100 solid peer reviewed papers that practically no one reads and no one cares about, but write one where you faked the numbers or the science, and everyone will read that one and everyone will know your name and everything you've done will be called into question."

[@3LeagueSos]

This show is such a time capsule, yet still so applicable today. Genius. We're watching it now. First time for the gf and 3rd for me. 👏🏽

[@vis5232]

Watched your Dexter video and then this one. Really underrated creator. You deserve more views than what you currently have. I hope you manage to get them.

[@davescripted3796]

🙏😀!!!

[@DP12321]

Same! Just subscribed. 🎉

[@jannetteberends8730]

Had the same order. Also subscribed. Two videos of this quality is amazing.

[@mndayman]

same

[@glorifiedlungfish]

The Ariely situation I find most interesting is one that was mostly reported in the Israeli press. It was about a study that claimed to prove that expensive placebos work better (actually that discount placebos work worse), but it was discovered that Ariely never got ethics review board permission to give people painful electric shocks. He was suspended from MIT when it was brought to light, which is why he moved to Duke. But the data is also extremely suspect - they claimed to get placebo effects ten to thirty times larger than similar (presumably real) studies get, suggesting the entire study was based on falsified data. But that one hasn't even been retracted. It's interesting to me that "little" frauds - like plagiarism or not getting IRB approval - are frequently a tell for more extreme forms of fraud. Given the number of times he has been caught lying I think it's valid to assume all his claims are false unless you have good evidence to the contrary, rather than given him or similar Nudgelords the benefit of the doubt. It was all fake and we need to start over again.

[@SolidSDA]

'I'm so lazy I READ books.' Talk about fraud, OP.

[@lorenzolamas1768]

Damn bro you are real good at this

[@davescripted3796]

🙏😀

[@patrickvalentino600]

2:37 um weren't gladwell and levitt also taken to task y fraudulent, dubious or sloppy claims?

[@davescripted3796]

Yes, they were. I wasn't defending any of the books, just saying that I like reading those kinds of books and that I need to be careful when I do.

[@greyfoxgaming365]

I think Levitt's issues were more genuine errors rather than outright fraud.

[@jannetteberends8730]

Templeton is Boris Johnson. This video made me realize that. I never matched it like that.

[@Shamino1]

From what I can tell, from your first week of undergrad until your final thesis defence, academia is formulated in such a way that you are striving ardently towards the truth (often in total isolation from your supervisors) to obtain credentials which allow you to lie fantastically.

[@stephenrobinson8244]

😮 you deserve a bigger audience!! Greattt content

[@houkhohs8794]

Please do more videos on The Wire! There is a huge gap for Wire essays, compared to other series

[@jayceinfinitealgharhythmns9814]

The part where you said “Templeton is a complete piece of shit! Don’t get me wrong… even amongst the wire’s most revolting inhabitants, Templeton more that holds his own!” Made me laugh so hard because it’s almost like he’s really making an conscious effort to be the worst! 😂

[@victordesouzasperduto]

Perfect analysis of yours,its always a pleasure tô see the wire being the subject of an smart Review!!!!!

[@davescripted3796]

TY!!!

[@katyaromanovskaya]

You deserve way more followers. I am now conflicted between telling everyone about you and not telling anyone and keep all your wit for myself

[@davescripted3796]

lol plenty of me to go around ;-)

[@v.heywood]

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[@MantaRochenHL]

Great essay! What do you think of Season 5 in general? I always thought it to be the worst by far, because characters like Gus and the young female journalist are only seen as honest and good, while every other major character in the show had some dark sides to themselves. Seemed to me like David Simon wanted to give a middle finger to the industry he used to work in.

[@davescripted3796]

Really?? I loved season five. I understand what you're saying, maybe it laid it on a little thick with money vs truth but as a story and social commentary I thought it worked great. I don't think the show had any bad seasons.

[@brig.badger2896]

I feel like not enough people talk about The Wire anymore.

[@1plus1plus3]

I did have a college class on the wire in Criminology.

[@IvoryPrince2k24]

Scott templeton is like Mike birbiglias evil twin

[@magicrectangleEnt]

oh my god you're right

[@rileysummers9757]

Would you consider doing a video on Nurse Jackie? I once considered making a video explaining the religious themes of the show and how it relates to Jackie’s addictions, but never went through with it. The show doesn’t get the analyses it deserves.

[@Popthebop]

Booosting this, sounds fun!

[@davescripted3796]

Great idea. I'll take a look. And you should make your video too!

[@BrainDamageComedy]

ahhhhh sheeeeeeeiiiiiittttttt!

[@TheTrooper9169666]

Clips like this enrich my soul. Thank you. The Wire is the ultimate achievement of storytelling. Because it tells you about life with 100% realism and still manages to be a piece of cinematography. It is the ultimate peak.

[@notthestatusquo7683]

4:42 Marine, not soldier.

[@tHeWasTeDYouTh]

you mean sailor, not soldier

[@SolidSDA]

'Why did Templeton lie?' Like you said, he wants to write for The New York Times. *ba-dum-tsh*

[@Ploplop-po9wo]

Really like your channel. Are you on Letterboxd?

[@SolidSDA]

Real *PO-lice 16:36

[@AdelShaheen-cr6mh]

can you do a video on the getaway? Dexter season 4 epsiode 12

[@davescripted3796]

A lot of people have told me I was too dismissive of season four and I suppose I was. I loved seasons two and seven because Dexter's main enemy wasn't another serial killer which trapped him in these moral dilemmas. But season four was still excellent in its own right. Trinity was the best of the serial killer opponents and the finale was a masterpiece. I totally blamed Dexter for Rita's death because he could have prevented it. Definitely worthy of its own video but I don't think I have the energy to make it. Sorry. This article from Den of Geek sums it up better than I could. Take care www.denofgeek.com/tv/dexter-season-4-episode-12-review-season-finale/

[@AdelShaheen-cr6mh]

@@davescripted3796 thank you so much for replying, I loved your video on Dexter but I'm sad you won't make on s4, thanks

[@neiloppa2620]

Reality vs. perception

[@Ohnoitsthatguy-620]

I don't know if anyone will agree with me but I Subscribe to the film theory that the Wire, Law and Order and all of its spin-offs, homicide: life on the street, and the X-Files all happen within the same universe.

[@Popthebop]

Same

[@NuncNuncNuncNunc]

Uh, yeah, sure. The Wire did not predict the thing that was already happening whether it was drugs, corruption, or general dishonesty. Another newsflash: most of what is called prophecy by the so-called prophets in the Bible is a dramatic retelling.

[@davescripted3796]

wasn't trying to get biblical, just saw a lot of similarities

[@NuncNuncNuncNunc]

@@davescripted3796 Ironically, predicting the past is how most Biblical prophesy works, so I take it back. Cheers!

[@InglebertHumptyDump]

Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies! Ooo Tell me lies! You can't disguise!

[@sortingoutmyclothes8131]

I recommend the Podcast If Books Could Kill to avoid reading shit books.

[@Alejandro-xz9kd]

this was a great video to watch while i played some minecraft

[@seeinred]

The whole "celebrity" thing did to science so much damage in recent years that it overshadowed the goddamn inquisition back in the day.

[@ShahabSheikhzadeh]

Did you play back the interlaced video segments of The Wire at a slow speed or something? Everything looking off is a little jarring for the story you're trying to say.

[@davescripted3796]

I did. I was hoping no one noticed lol. Because of all the copywrite software it's hard to screen record so I had to finagle a bit while I tried to figure things out.

[@trw1782]

In case you haven't seen The Wire this video is only about season 5 and it is generally considered the worst of the show. And now you might be thinking that the season sounded interesting and good. You are not wrong, season 5 is amazing, yet rest of the series is just better. That's how good show it really is.

[@songbirdnzinga7709]

Good video

[@alexacarrillo4339]

There have been many issues with fraud in sociology and psychology. Please don’t assume anyone is actually even doing their studies until there are multiple studies done by multiple people. Plus in science peer reviewed is massively important.

[@hefoxed]

Also don't assume the paper has properly accounted for contributing factors I lost a lot of trust in veterinary care when I looked into the effects of economic struggle on dog behavior/health .. and lack of accounting for that in a lot of behavior/health studies on sterilization despite sterilization costing money.

[@jonny__b]

Tbh, every time I watch The Wire I like it less (have watched it through 3 times now). I just don't think it's as masterful as people claim. I also think season 3 gets a bad rap

[@fluffywolfo3663]

As a dood who became the number one source of James Somerton salt in his friendship circles, I noticed a lot of shocking parallels. You've got a dood who, as you put it, makes stuff up for the sake of attention. Who always has the "perfect" fact supporting his inflammatory bullshit, hidden somewhere up his ass. Who "Cares more about attention than he does getting the truth," and coincidentally gets a lot of money for that. Am I talking about a disgraced video essayist or Templeton? Yes. I think a lot of the hatred for this kinda dood comes from the sense that... it's not like this guy betrayed us _personally,_ it's that his existence represents a fundamental kind of betrayal.

[@theprecipiceofreason]

The crazier, deeper comment on society is people think the Wire is deep, complex, insightful and not just a collection of hacky stereotypes mixed with weak, gen x, weak faux-nihilism.

[@jonny-b4954]

Whaaaaa? Nah, The Wire is top notch

[@dave19328]

You're the one trying to be special.

[@ryanbesco8067]

Wow you’re an adorable wordsmith, staring into the void while it stares back into you.

[@danle7022]

why he have half a beard???

[@N.I.R.A.T.I.A.S.]

He received third degree burns to his face as a teenager and can't grow facial hair on that side of his face. Why he chooses to leave the other half unshaven is for him to know, I guess.

[@WorthlessWinner]

It makes ZERO sense that Templeton is scared in that scene, unless you believe journalists are honest to a degree they never have been IRL. A real version of that would have templeton instantly report on the cops faking a serial killing, his own lies would be brushed under the rug and his new story would propel him to more fame. That's the sort of thing Boris Johnson did to eventually become PM! In general, the wire sucks because it's story only "works" if we accept institutions (that the author happened to work in, so is biased to defend) are 100 times more honest than they really are. It presents itself as gritty and real but is idealistic to a silly extent. Ariely is still a massively respected well paid researcher even after he was exposed btw, it basically did nothing to hurt him. That's proof of what I'm saying.

[@capnmnemo]

I concur. The newspaper season is the weakest.

[@samthemessiah9330]

Among us....

[@paulkenny105]

Sorry the half beard stops any engagement with that guy

[@capnmnemo]

He was in a fire.

[@BurghezulDjentilom]

@@capnmnemo so ?

[@nhojcad7452]

W

[@Lunji]

Watsons gross

[@wokangoman]

Make moar videos

[@Mehis]

The Wire never stops being relevant. 🥲