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> Young's stance is that the contract lab doing the reproduction doesn't seem competent enough to correctly reproduce the experiment. Yeah, but the contract la
by drcode 11y ago
> Young's stance is that the contract lab doing the reproduction doesn't seem competent enough to correctly reproduce the experiment.
Yeah, but the contract lab doesn't need to be filled with geniuses (like Young perhaps) just to reproduce a now-mundane result from a few years ago, right? We're not talking about coming up with cutting-edge new experiments, just reproducing an old result using lab techniques that have probably become far less "cutting edge" in the intervening years...
I am highly suspicious of a claim that some experiment from a few years ago can still only be replicated by a tiny number of the top experts.
- joe_the_user 11y agoI am highly suspicious of a claim that some experiment from a few years ago can still only be replicated by a tiny number of the top experts. I don't think you can find any claim on the order of "only a few top experts can do this..." in the article, the objections claimed to be against specific contract shops. As I understand things, biology experiments are still a matter of craft, of doing things by hand. Like any such thing (say, wood working or computer programming) there are going to be levels of skill involved with the lowest level of qualified people often being rather bad (for example lowest level contract programming shop). An analogy that springs to mind is whether one would want one's video game ported by the cheapest porting operation the business. Of course, all this is me talking about what I can glean from the article compared to what others imagine the article says - until and unless someone with specific knowledge of the complaints and their validity or lack-there-of appears.
- drcode 11y agoall fair points.