Social sciences have pretty deep-seated logistical obstacles to reproducibility. If you want to reproduce an archaeology paper, well, how? You can’t exactly go

Social sciences have pretty deep-seated logistical obstacles to reproducibility. If you want to reproduce an archaeology paper, well, how? You can’t exactly go dig the same site back up. If you go out as a cultural anthropologist to hang out with some indigenous tribe somewhere, and your experiences aren’t the same as the last guy, does that mean anything? How much is because you’re different people? How much is because the tribe has already gotten used to having a researcher around? This is part of why shit like the Piltdown Man happens.