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So, doesn't that mean we should be blaming idiotic news media outlets that tend to generalize and publish scoops on scientific papers too quickly?

• capnrefsmmat 13y ago
  Yes and no. Yes, the media sucks, but no, most scientific papers are not replicated -- or if they are, it's by a hapless grad student using the results in their research, only to find they don't hold up. The hapless grad student usually doesn't get to publish this, because negative results are boring and not usually published in prestigious journals. Most scientists have better things to do than replicate previous findings, unless that previous finding directly bears on their own work.