Depends on the discipline. I haven't really heard of frequent non-reproducible results in physics, chemistry, and geology. It seems to be more of a medicine-bio

Depends on the discipline. I haven't really heard of frequent non-reproducible results in physics, chemistry, and geology. It seems to be more of a medicine-biology-psychology problem. Personally I think psychology shouldn't even be a separate field from neuroscience. Psychology is, after all, merely an emergent phenomenon from neuroscience, but culture can muddy whether psychological results are truly indicative of how humans think or rather of how a culture has conditioned us to behave in a certain way. I can't remember his name (and I hope someone does and links his wikipedia article), but there was a very well-known and controversial figure within the psychology/psychiatry community who believed that psychology was only slightly better than pseudo-science, and that oftentimes it merely studies behavior and pathologizes others based on our culture rather than science. I just think we don't know enough about neuroscience to really make psychology a very legitimate field of study - it's like trying to perform chemistry without the knowledge of electrons.