Dr. Adam Mastroianni is a Harvard and Oxford educated psychologist who loves the idea of science, but not so much it's modern practice. After being told one too many times that his academic writing was "too fun" for academic journals, he decided to devote his time to what science should actually look like - which is passionate people being free to explore the ideas that keep them up at night. He writes prolifically about this at his Experimental History Substack, and on the podcast we talk about how peer review made everything fall apart, how all the bad papers in the world can't take down a single good idea, and the dream of buying a house in Boston and filling it with people who can spend all their free time thinking their way out of the box we're in.

(00:00:17) Who is Adam Mastrioanni

(00:07:22) Reading Science

(00:13:36) Peer Review, failure of

(00:15:50) Patreon Ask

(00:15:50) CARD - patron ask

(00:19:03) Utter mayhem

(00:23:18) Grant applications

(00:28:14) Vicars, spiders, & science at spearpoint

(00:33:08) Epstein

(00:38:07) A geometric problem

(00:43:47) The internet is garbage

(00:57:04) So much is left

(00:58:54) Why nutritional advice makes no sense

(01:05:27) Finding what's important

(01:12:43) Scientific vs Intuitive

(01:17:58) Conformity & compliance

(01:23:48) what doesn't replicate

(01:27:25) replacing spiritual guidance

(01:34:35) Dreams & mysticism

(01:43:36) Rat utopia

(01:49:05) Metascience

(01:55:41) Bay bridge building

(01:58:10) Experimental History

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