I am glad to read that lately journal like Nature are taking reproducibility and plagiat seriously.
I think it should be even be a high priority in my field of expertise (molecular, cellular biology and biochemistry).
Who never managed to reproduce a result published? Who never managed to reproduce a result from a co-worker (from the previous post-doc/PhD student or PI)?
It is also very frustrating because the persons who produce the results sometimes cannot explain how they got it.
Should we not believe the publications ? I would not be so categorical but the research community should be looking at statistics a little more.
In the video below are presented the data from a survey Nature performed. Half of the researchers thinks there is a crisis in reproducility.
What do you think? Are facing this reproducibility issues ? What solution could be used to decrease the problem ?
Source:
- http://www.nature.com/nature/videoarchive/reproducibility/index.html
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