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freediddytoday at 1:21 AM2 repliesview on HN

No paper should ever be referenced until it has been replicated by an independent group. The replication crisis in science is real, and it won't take long for no one to believe anything anymore.


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Polizeiposaunetoday at 1:29 AM

That rule would make it difficult to report on a failure to replicate a published paper.

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alansabertoday at 1:53 AM

In the physical sciences, any sufficiently important paper is independently verified. Sounds like cost/effort of these multi year studies is not faesible to replicate, but then again, I know nothing about social science so w/e