A short overview of the replication crisis in research

The Abstract

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There was this comment that for whatever reason I was unable to forget. It happened shortly after I joined the lab where I was trying to get my Ph.D. I was talking with a senior labmate about experimental design and the difficulty to obtain confirmatory results and he told me the following: “Obtaining confirmatory results is not a hard thing to get, getting…