Is there a reproducibility crisis in science? - Matt Anticole
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Published scientific studies can motivate research, inspire products, and inform policy. However, recent studies that examined dozens of published pharmaceutical papers managed to replicate the results of less than 25% of them — and similar results have been found in other scientific disciplines. How do we combat this crisis of scientific irreproducibility? Matt Anticole investigates.
List one pressure that each of the following parties might feel that could discourage them from looking more closely at preventing irreproducible results. a) Researchers b) Universities c) Scientific Journals
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