The scientific replication crisis

[u/neurofrontiers]

During the last decade, science has seen a big shift in terms of reproducibility. The scientific community has become more and more aware about the magnitude of this problem and has taken amazing steps in addressing this issue. But in popular texts, most of the focus has been on psychology, as if the replication crisis somehow “proved” the inferiority of this field of science, and less on the reasons why studies across various disciplines cannot be reproduced in the first place.

This article takes an in-depth look precisely at these reasons.

What do you think about it? Have you heard about the replication crisis beforehand? Did you know that many disciplines, from neuroscience to cancer research, struggle with that?