“…Social scientific claims have become highly influential in the public domain, particularly recently in the context of social policy interventions. A dominant example of this is behavioral interventions, under the catch all term "nudges" (Thaler & Sunstein, 2008), which have become highly popular decision-support methods used by governments to help in a wide range of areas such as health, personal finances, and general wellbeing (Curchin, 2017;Osman, 2016). The scientific claim, informed by psychological and behavioral economic research, is that to help people make better decisions regarding their lifestyle choices, and those that improve the welfare of the state, what is potentially effective is subtly changing the framing of the decision-making context, which makes prominent the option which maximizes long term future gains (Thaler & Sunstein, 2008;Sunstein, 2016a).…”