> For that matter, who's going to replicate a condensed matter experiment for which a grad student took three years to build the apparatus at a cost of $250,000

> For that matter, who's going to replicate a condensed matter experiment for which a grad student took three years to build the apparatus at a cost of $250,000? If the results are interesting to anyone and there is more science to do, people will eventually replicate (or fail to do so, like with Majoranas). If not, then why would we care about replication?