Re:Just 11% of 53 cancer research papers were reproducible
by ars on Thursday May 09, 2013 @02:47PM
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If the identical apparatus is essential to reproducing the result, then the description of that apparatus is part of the experiment. Omitting that means it's not a proper paper.
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Re:Just 11% of 53 cancer research papers were reproducible
by spikels on Thursday May 09, 2013 @03:09PM
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If only it were so. Often important parts of the protocol exist only in a hand written entries in a lab notebook. Because very few people are reproducing experiments and it is lots of extra work and jornals have limited space all the required details are rarely included. This is a big part of the problem. The typical work around is to contact the original reaseach to fill in the missing details.