> Let’s be honest about what that means: 2/3 of scientists are fraudulent or incompetent. No, it means that 2/3rds of the attempts to reproduce research fails.

> Let’s be honest about what that means: 2/3 of scientists are fraudulent or incompetent. No, it means that 2/3rds of the attempts to reproduce research fails. When you work on the very edge of science, the lab you're working on it probably either the only one, of one of a very small number who are even able to perform the research that you're doing, due to a combination of highly specialised equipment, subject knowledge and just plain experience. Without that combination of factors, it's quite easy to mess up an experiment and therefore fail to reproduce the research.