> The finding falls in line with other large scale replication studies in medicine, which have had replication success rates ranging from 11 to 44%. These numb

> The finding falls in line with other large scale replication studies in medicine, which have had replication success rates ranging from 11 to 44%. These numbers seem almost wholly unrelated. A perfectly good study may be extremely difficult to replicate (or even the original purpose of replication - the experiment as described in the paper may simply not be sufficient); and an attempt at replication (or refutation), successful or not, is under the same pressure to be faked or flawed as the original paper.