I'm pretty sure this is not accurate. Issues with reproducibility have been discovered independently in a number of different scientific disciplines going back

I'm pretty sure this is not accurate. Issues with reproducibility have been discovered independently in a number of different scientific disciplines going back to the 1990s at least. This was then covered in a New Yorker article by Jonah Lehrer, published in 2010 [1]. It included the phrase "decline effect", coined by a researcher studying ESP in the 1930s. A great deal of the research described in that article is academic in nature. The article also alludes to the contributory influence of funding as one of the causes of this phenomenon: "The bias was first identified by the statistician Theodore Sterling, in 1959, after he noticed that ninety-seven per cent of all published psychological studies with statistically significant data found the effect they were looking for." ... "In recent years, publication bias has mostly been seen as a problem for clinical trials, since pharmaceutical companies are less interested in publishing results that aren’t favorable. But it’s becoming increasingly clear that publication bias also produces major distortions in fields without large corporate incentives, such as psychology and ecology." [1]: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/12/13/the-truth-wears-off https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/12/13/the-truth-wear...