Adam Mastroianni

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[upbeat music] Today is August 12, 2026, and my guest is psychologist Adam Mastroianni.

His Substack is Experimental History.

This is Adam's fifth appearance on the program.

They b- they both seem good, and maybe for some people it is get the small right and you'll get the big right, and for other people it's get the big right, you'll get the small right.

I don't know.

My guest today has been Adam Mastroianni.

Adam, thanks for being part of EconTalk.

That's just, that's not the culture that's being reinforced.

There's also, I think there's a little bit of a light here, which is, there's a really interesting blog written by Adam Mastroianni about what he calls the strong link problem in the sciences.

And he's like, we spend a lot of time really worrying about bad conclusions and bad science and really focusing on, you know, how do we get rid of all of the bad stuff? And he's like, maybe it doesn't matter that there's a lot of bad ideas out there because the ideas that are good are going to be the ones that are able to be linked together to carry us into the next stage.

And so over time, the bad ideas do fall away.