Replicants

[supergee]

The replication crisis, in comic form

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[weofodthignen]

My science education was almost criminally bad. And I find the conflation of creationism, global warming skepticism, and alternative medicine particularly disturbing from a psychologist, who should know a thing or two about the psychosomatic components of medicine. But isn't the crisis really a crisis in psychology, a demonstration of its shaky scientific status? Isn't that what "human behavior is so variable that ... the original researchers had to get lucky to find the result" really means? Despite the well taken point about the warping effect of the competition for journal space, is this really applicable elsewhere in science? The cold fusion paper was rapidly ripped apart, for example. Maybe in medicine ...