Doesn&#x27;t wash. If replication attempts are subject to publication bias, we are still better off because the subsequent meta-analyses overcome sampling error better and are able to show publication bias using funnel plots or other techniques like p-uniform, and sometimes can even correct the bias to give you a less biased and more accurate estimate. In contrast, you cannot show publication bias for a particular novel result nor can you easily correct for it. So given the choice between 5 studies on a single hypothesis (all afflicted by publication bias) and 5 studies on 5 hypotheses (with publication bias), you are better off in the former scenario. (In the latter scenario, you could try to use informative priors estimated from field-wide demonstrations of publication bias, but at least so far, this is an extremely unpopular approach.)