> Most papers I come across turn out to be difficult if not impossible to reproduce How is this even possible? Isn't Reproducibility one the pillars of Science

> Most papers I come across turn out to be difficult if not impossible to reproduce How is this even possible? Isn't Reproducibility one the pillars of Science? What gives such a paper credibility over say, an eyewitness description of a UFO sighting? It's one thing to not perform the actual reproduction experiments, but publishing claims that (almost) can't be reproduced is another.