The speaker believes shortcuts and validity problems are less problematic in this research than he had expected.

“these things take shortcuts they'll always be kind of like validity problems weirdly that's actually not as much of a problem as we thought it would be and and he thinks if yeah if they can recreate these experiments then why couldn't they be creative if they have the ability to recreate things why couldn't they take the next step and say oh this is an interesting question this is an interesting new problem to solve and go from there so i was quite intrigued by that research and indeed i do think it is”