My academic wife&#x27;s impression of the idea is that while eliminating bad heuristics can be good, there are also good heuristics that come with name recognition.<p>In particular, it&#x27;s often difficult in social science to know if the research methods were <i>really</i> done correctly. More prestigious authors tend to be more rigorous than unknown authors.<p>So the point of eliminating as many bad heuristics as possible (regardless of how feasible it actually is) might throw out a size-able chunk of the baby with the bathwater.