  I would like to thank Junk and Lyons (arXiv:2009.06864) for beginning a
discussion about replication in high-energy physics (HEP). Junk and Lyons
ultimately argue that HEP learned its lessons the hard way through past
failures and that other fields could learn from our procedures. They emphasize
that experimental collaborations would risk their legacies were they to make a
type-1 error in a search for new physics and outline the vigilance taken to
avoid one, such as data blinding and a strict $5\sigma$ threshold. The
discussion, however, ignores an elephant in the room: there are regularly
anomalies in searches for new physics that result in substantial scientific
activity but don't replicate with more data.

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability;High Energy Physics - Experiment;High Energy Physics - Phenomenology