This article in the Guardian about an MSc student who uncovered a major flaw in a headline grabbing psychology paper is amazingly reminscent of Steve McIntyre's story: the amateur sleuth, the mathematically illiterate academics, the unwillingness to admit error; it's all there.
"Not many psychologists are very good at maths," says Brown. "Not many psychologists are even good at the maths and statistics you have to do as a psychologist. Typically you'll have a couple of people in the department who understand it. Most psychologists are not capable of organising a quantitative study. A lot of people can get a PhD in psychology without having those things at their fingertips. And that's the stuff you're meant to know. Losada's maths were of the kind you're not meant to encounter in psychology. The maths you need to understand the Losada system is hard but the maths you need to understand that this cannot possibly be true is relatively straightforward."