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Social science, including behavioral economics, has recently come under fire as failing to generate studies with reproducible results. The Reproducibility Project made waves in August of 2015 when it ...

A decade ago, John P.A. Ioannidis published a provocative and much-discussed paper arguing that most published research findings are false. It’s starting to look like he was right. A decade ago, John ...

“The difference in F. nucleatum expression between [colorectal carcinoma] and adjacent normal tissues was thus smaller than the original study, and not detected in most samples,” the authors of the ...

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Scientists and drug developers are always looking for new ways to hit cancer where it hurts. Recently, they’ve been focusing on metabolic pathways—how cancer cells hijack cells to support their own ...

“Don’t trust the headlines when you see that somebody replicated a study,” Daniel Gilbert, a psychology researcher at Harvard University who coauthored the technical critique, told The Chronicle of ...

Recent years have seen perceptions of a “reproducibility crisis” grow in various disciplines. Scientists see poor levels of research reproducibility as a severe threat to scientific self-correction, ...

The Reproducibility Project: Psychology was a crowdsourced collaboration of 270 contributing authors to repeat 100 published experimental and correlational psychological studies. This project was led ...

Is psychology facing a ‘replication crisis’? Last year, a crowdsourced effort that was able to validate fewer than half of 98 published findings 1 rang alarm bells about the reliability of psychology ...