So we need the original authors to come back with their own re-replication. Instead of throwing their published paper over the wall and moving on, they are the

So we need the original authors to come back with their own re-replication. Instead of throwing their published paper over the wall and moving on, they are the people in the best position to actually defend it and address problems with replications. This publish-and-forget behavior annoys me about researchers. Sometimes I find results that look like they'll useful for my (non-academic) work, but the paper containing them is the final say on the matter. There's no version 2, there's no other work improving on it. It's just a dead end.