This sub is moving towards pseudoscience and away from evidence-based economics

In just a few days, I've seen:<br><br>* A post with an obvious event study finding (business crashes! prices go up!) being taken at face value as proof of a causal effect, with no discussion of identification<br>* A polling post asking what "the minimum wage should be", with no discussion of the actual effects of the minimum wage; i.e. the first principle of any discussion of policy<br>* A post about the "worst jobs in the world" that was simply a collection of hyperlink thumbnails, with a comment section that was about 80% anecdotes (This reminds me of my friend!) and about 20% mentioning any actual data or research<br>* A post saying that the majority of PhD students want to drop out and leave academia, and the top comment responding with something entirely useless<br>* A post about the "kind of student who gets an Ivy League PhD", and the top response being a comment that was just a table from 2017(!!). I could find much better, more current, data in about ten seconds on google <br>* A (now removed) post asking what the effects of a UBI would be, and the top response being a study from 2019<br>* A megathread of students asking about grad school with no discussion of basic facts about the PhD job market or the stats on hiring and attrition<br><br>I've been a regular lurker on this sub for years and I feel like it's really declined in quality. I get that Chambers is no longer a major part of my life, but I never see discussion of actual research or evidence on this sub anymore.