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Can someone please elaborate on this? What is the "reproducibility crisis" in this case?

• xapata 6y ago
  "Most published research findings are false" (not reproducible) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1182327/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1182327/
  • whydoyoucare 6y ago
    This is an excellent read: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/12/beware-the-man-of-one-study/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/12/beware-the-man-of-one-... -- basically says one has to be very skeptical of trusting a study that suits the narrative, and how studies can be cherry-picked to align with your narrative.
• umvi 6y ago
  Reproducibility crisis is well known, especially in social sciences. However, it affects other science fields as well. In a nutshell, the crisis is that there is far more incentive to churn out a new publication/study than reproduce an existing one. So we have tons of studies that are the only one of its kind that have not been reproduced. The crisis part comes in where attempts to reproduce the results of these studies fail which throws into question the legitimacy of the entire field's publications. So you can imagine how putting your faith into covid-19 related studies (such as effects of hydroxychloroquine) that were rushed and results not reproduced independently can result in problems down the road. Science is probably the best tool we have for determining truth. However, it takes a long time and a lot of effort to converge on the truth and people put far more faith than they ought to in the results of fresh publications that have results they like (or fear).