> ... it's easy to screw one up no matter how sound the underlying science because you messed something up. Yes, but when a replication fails, the question one

> ... it's easy to screw one up no matter how sound the underlying science because you messed something up. Yes, but when a replication fails, the question one wants to ask is whether it was the original study or the replication effort that caused the problem. J. B. Rhine's seemingly solid psychic-abilities studies couldn't be replicated, but this was because he kept tossing results that didn't fit his expectations, something that didn't come out until after he passed on.