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Old 23-06-2016, 03:09 PM
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More than 70% of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist's experiments, and more than half have failed to reproduce their own experiments. Those are some of the telling figures that emerged from Nature's survey of 1,576 researchers who took a brief online questionnaire on reproducibility in research.
But isn't that the scientific method at work? Metastudies and the ability to reproduce results are far better indicators of the truth, than one single study. But that doesn't work for science reporters who constantly need the next big discovery.
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