Most scientists 'can't replicate studies by their peers'
An alternative headline would be &quot;Most Published Studies Are Wrong&quot;<p>Am I wrong for considering this not-quite-a-crisis? It has long been the case that initial studies on a topic fail to get reproduced. That&#x27;s usually because if someone publishes an interesting result, other people do follow up studies with better controls. Sometimes those are to reproduce, sometimes the point is to test something that would follow from the original finding. But either way, people find out.<p>I mean, I guess the real problem is that lots of sloppy studies get published, and a lot of scientists are incentivized to write sloppy studies. But if you&#x27;re actually a working scientist, you should understand that already and not take everything you see in a journal as actual truth, but as something maybe might be true.