AI agents re-test 8 famous social science findings overnight; only one survives

beglen used Claude Code and Codex to re-test 8 famous social science findings on new data overnight, producing publishable one-page infographics for each. Only one finding held up, with results like the daylight-saving fatal-crash effect deemed inconclusive under new data.

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