An even more interesting question is: Has the rate of reproducibility change at all over the decades? Are we just simply more aware of the problems today than

An even more interesting question is: Has the rate of reproducibility change at all over the decades? Are we just simply more aware of the problems today than in the past? When you had 10 papers published out of which 7 were BS, you could weed those out by reading each. When you have 1K papers and 700 are BS ... you are not going to be able to do so.