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Re:Most scientists 'can't replicate studies by their peers' by sndean on Thursday February 23, 2017 @11:04AM (#13714943)
> Our focus shouldn't be on exact replication, and should be on how generalizable such results are.

This is how I normally look at things. If I can't easily replicate an experiment, then it's very likely to be wrong.

Sadly, it's pretty rare (and exciting) when you can easily do something based on the methods in someone's paper

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Re:Most scientists 'can't replicate studies by their peers' by skosuri on Thursday February 23, 2017 @11:25AM (#13715128)
Well that shouldn't necessarily be the standard. There are lots of people I know that can't do a miniprep or run a gel. It doesn't mean that those things don't work or aren't replicable.
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