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replicability issues are mostly in psych and economics. devices and drugs rely on physics and chem/biology which are highly replicable. it's obvious how physics

• hrasyid 9y ago
  Is drug biology really easily replicable? I mean, people can't just find hundreds of sick people who are willing to be random-tested by some random drug, right?
  • nonbel 9y ago
    No, not at all. It may be worse off than psychology: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4270077/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4270077/ http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/future_tense/2016/04/biomedicine_facing_a_worse_replication_crisis_than_the_one_plaguing_psychology.html http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/future_tens... http://www.nature.com/nrd/journal/v10/n9/full/nrd3439-c1.html http://www.nature.com/nrd/journal/v10/n9/full/nrd3439-c1.htm... http://www.reuters.com/article/us-science-cancer-idUSBRE82R12P20120328 http://www.reuters.com/article/us-science-cancer-idUSBRE82R1... http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v483/n7391/full/483531a.html http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v483/n7391/full/483531a... http://www.sciencemag.org/content/348/6242/1411 http://www.sciencemag.org/content/348/6242/1411 http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1002165 http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jour... http://www.nature.com/news/cancer-reproducibility-project-scales-back-ambitions-1.18938 http://www.nature.com/news/cancer-reproducibility-project-sc...