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Title: Most scientists 'can't replicate studies by their peers'
Post by: rangerrebew on February 26, 2017, 03:30:49 pm

Most scientists 'can't replicate studies by their peers'
By Tom Feilden Science correspondent, Today programme

    22 February 2017
    From the section Science & Environment

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Image caption Scientists attempting to repeat findings reported in five landmark cancer studies confirmed only two

Science is facing a "reproducibility crisis" where more than two-thirds of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist's experiments, research suggests.

This is frustrating clinicians and drug developers who want solid foundations of pre-clinical research to build upon.

From his lab at the University of Virginia's Centre for Open Science, immunologist Dr Tim Errington runs The Reproducibility Project, which attempted to repeat the findings reported in five landmark cancer studies.

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39054778

Title: Re: Most scientists 'can't replicate studies by their peers'
Post by: GtHawk on February 27, 2017, 03:53:09 am

Now if they were all climate scientists they would have no problem, you just put the result down that you want and change the data to fit.