I was astounded to read: > [Psychology] is actually leading the way in tackling a problem that is endemic throughout science [replication] "Throughout science

I was astounded to read: > [Psychology] is actually leading the way in tackling a problem that is endemic throughout science [replication] "Throughout science" presumably is meant to apply to everything including physics, biology, etc. In fact, the article explicitly recognises "Failures to replicate" in several other fields (medicine, biology, observational astronomy) which seems to contradict itself - it's a big special thing when a psychology journal publishes replications, and they are leading the way! Except here is a load of uncontroversial non-replications from other fields. Perhaps I'm just being spoilt - being in High Energy Physics, almost everyone I work with has an understanding of the statistics involved, and extremely skeptical outlooks on everything that is anything less than perfectly rigorous - along with (usually) multiple separate experiments all measuring (or capable of measuring) the same thing. One big example I can think of was DAMA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAMA/NaI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAMA/NaI - found evidence for dark matter, and a successive experiment by the same team http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAMA/LIBRA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAMA/LIBRA has found the same result - but nobody "believes" the result, until it is measured by somebody else, even though nobody can find a cause for the false positive (assuming it is false). Finally, I link (again) the Feynman 1974 Caltech commencement address, where he actually talks about this reproducibility issue: http://neurotheory.columbia.edu/~ken/cargo_cult.html http://neurotheory.columbia.edu/~ken/cargo_cult.html