That's no different from previous developments. If you refuse to work with modern programming languages, or with the web, or with a task-tracker, you're narrowing your opportunities for employment considerably.

That's a rule-of-thumb to help beginners in making judgement calls. It doesn't mean inheritance should never be used.

> That is, after all, what sets "object-oriented" apart from having objects alone.

I wouldn't say so, most object-oriented languages don't work like Objective-C/Smalltalk. Today, I think most programmers would agree that inheritance is the defining feature of object-orientation.

> I’ve been here for a years under different usernames

The guidelines ask that you don't do this. From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html :

> Throwaway accounts are ok for sensitive information, but please don't create accounts routinely. HN is a community—users should have an identity that others can relate to.

I see my phrasing was ambiguous, for what it's worth I'm afraid mike_hearn had it right, I was saying the replication crisis largely just affects research in psychology. I see this was too narrow, but I think it's fair to say psychology is likely the most affected field.

In terms of solutions, the practice of 'preregistration' seems like a move in the right direction.