Yes, it's the truth of the biological knowledge that is most important. And we get at that best not by replicating a particular experimental design in two labs,

Yes, it's the truth of the biological knowledge that is most important. And we get at that best not by replicating a particular experimental design in two labs, but by examining it in the context of a diversity of different experiments with different assumptions. The Reproducibility Project is run by people in the business of replicating experimental design for profit. They argue that a proportion of public research money should be given to businesses like theirs for this process. This will take a lot of resources that would otherwise be spent examining biological knowledge from different angles rather than the same angle multiple times. In the end, we will know less.