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Reproducibility crisis

Reproducibility crisis

July 23, 2019
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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 

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