It's not satire; that's just the sad state of scientific experimentation. A similar finding was widely publicized for psychology studies: http://www.nature.com

It's not satire; that's just the sad state of scientific experimentation. A similar finding was widely publicized for psychology studies: http://www.nature.com/news/over-half-of-psychology-studies-fail-reproducibility-test-1.18248 http://www.nature.com/news/over-half-of-psychology-studies-f...