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Re:Most scientists 'can't replicate studies by their peers' by ZeroGravitas on Thursday February 23, 2017 @09:51AM (#13714244)
No, I claimed that all scientist would have had the experience of not reproducing something. Because if they do it a lot, as part of a regular process then they will eventually find something that doesn't work because the original scientist didn't document a step correctly or misread the results or just got lucky due to random chance.

Just like all developers will eventually find a bug in code they code review. This is different from all code they review having bugs.

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Re:Most scientists 'can't replicate studies by their peers' by endorphone on Thursday February 23, 2017 @11:59AM (#13715436)
While the wording may be vague, they aren't talking about the experiences of a subset of researchers -- they are saying that of the experiments they tried to replicate, 2/3rds weren't reproduceable. That is terrible, and has absolutely nothing to do with finding bugs.
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