Why Do So Many Social-Science Studies Show “Mixed” Results?

Imagine a randomized controlled trial that studied whether a particular medicine was more effective when delivered by a red or a green syringe. Such an experiment is so obviously pointless because (most of the time, anyway) we are confident that it is the chemical properties of the medicine and their interaction with the body—not the color of the syringe that delivers it—that affects the target disease or condition.

Capital Research, February/March 2024

In the February/March 2024 issue of Capital Research magazine, Italian energy giant Enel cashes in on federal climate pork, the Progressive International gathers together the radical fringes of global leftism, Big Labor takes a sharp left turn, and Scott Walter testifies on political abuses in the nonprofit sector before a House subcommittee.

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