> because you don't have the lab or tools available. I agree, that's trivial. What's not so trivial: Where does the "experiment" start and where do the "condit

> because you don't have the lab or tools available. I agree, that's trivial. What's not so trivial: Where does the "experiment" start and where do the "conditions" end? In theory the scientific method is easy, in practice (i.e. state of the art research) you are studying highly complicated phenomena, that are, per definition, not well understood. Often you don't know the mechanism of action, let alone the factors that influence it. I don't blame you - if you haven't done scientific research, it is very difficult to appreciate. So again, from the failure to replicate a result it does not follow that the result is wrong, or that "it's not science". That's a misunderstanding of the replication crisis.