Re:Replace Peer Review with “Peer Replication” (2021)
by johnnyworker on Sunday August 06, 2023 @05:40PM
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> companies make the same thing at the same place on the same equipment after sometimes years of process optimisation of well understood technology. This is essentially a best case scenario and still results fail to reproduce.
We're not talking about 1 of 10 reproduction attempts failing, we're talking about 100%. And no, companies don't time and time again try to reproduce something that has never been reproduced and fail, to then try again, endlessly. That's just not a thing.
> it is impossible to easily reproduce other people's results
We're also not talking about "easily" reproducing something, but at all. And in principle doesn't cut it, it needs to be reproduced in practice.
That is not to say that scientist should not document the process to their best ability so it can be reproduced in principle. I'm just arguing that it is impossible to easily reproduce other people's results. Again when chemical/manufacturing companies open another location they often spend months to years to make the process work in the new factory.