Reproducibility crisis
23 Jul 2019
Inadequate reporting, variability in reagents and the pressure to publish all contribute to the reproducibility crisis that is affecting life sciences…
- 50% of scientific resources used in previously published articles were unidentifiable. Vasilevsky et al. (2013), PeerJ
- $28 billion annually in the US alone wasteful spent on research that cannot be replicated. Freedman, L. P et al. PLOS Biol (2015)
- 70% of researchers said they'd tried and failed to reproduce another group's experiments. Baker, Nature 533 (2016)
- 3% of 1,576 researchers said there wasn’t a reproducibility crisis. Baker, Nature 533 (2016)
- $23.2 million funded to the US Center for Open Science, dedicated to reproducibility in the sciences
