30k medical studies may be invalid due to contaminated cell cultures
This just highlights an emerging trend, that I&#x27;m already seeing in University labs. The distrust of science, especially experiments you didn&#x27;t do yourself. It&#x27;s worrying enough to see the public mistrust science, but I&#x27;m seeing this happen in biology labs across my university.<p>This article is understating the effect on pi&#x27;s and their labs. During one of my conference meetings with other PI&#x27;s we estimated 3 million of our combined grant were spent trying to replicate incorrect or bad studies.<p>It also has an extremely demoralizing effect down the lab pipeline with the other workers in the labs from phd students, postdocs, and lab techs.<p>I&#x27;ve been hearing more and more disillusionment about the state of science from lab members. I&#x27;ve already had to have a meeting with several postdocs who said something similar to I don&#x27;t trust 90% of published articles.<p>Something is really wrong in science, and this is just the beginning.<p>The scientific community need to have a public serious discussion about the worries many of us are already having in private. But since no PI ,including me, wants to jeopardize their career, I fear things are going to go off a cliff.<p>EDIT: If any rich silicon valley investor is reading this, please invest in a companies trying to automate and standardize research lab work.