<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Hey - it isn't all psychology that has trouble with replicating studies:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">bill w</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><table role="presentation" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="center" width="100%" class="gmail-m_3264876163183784998email-container" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;max-width:600px;border-spacing:0px;border-collapse:collapse;table-layout:fixed;margin:0px auto"><tbody><tr><td class="gmail-m_3264876163183784998content-separator" style="font-family:Georgia,"Times New Roman",times,serif;line-height:1.5;padding:32px 0px"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="width:600px;min-width:100%;border-spacing:0px;border-collapse:collapse;table-layout:fixed;margin:0px auto"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family:Georgia,"Times New Roman",times,serif;line-height:1px;padding:0px;height:1px;border-top:1px solid rgb(229,229,229)"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td class="gmail-m_3264876163183784998content-block" style="font-family:Georgia,"Times New Roman",times,serif;line-height:1.5;padding:0px 20px;font-size:18px;letter-spacing:0.2px"><h2 style="font-size:24px;margin:0px;line-height:1.3"><a href="https://nature.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2c6057c528fdc6f73fa196d9d&id=f267c849a8&e=d520e39c16" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none">Replication chaos in cancer biology</a></h2><p style="margin:16px 0px 10px;line-height:1.5;letter-spacing:0.2px">An eight-year-long effort to replicate key cancer-biology experiments has found that fewer than half yielded similar results. The Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology attempted to replicate experiments from 53 high-impact papers. Ultimately, it managed to tackle only 23, and <a href="https://nature.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2c6057c528fdc6f73fa196d9d&id=311ab17f60&e=d520e39c16" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none">results from 5 of those could be fully reproduced</a>. “None of the 193 experiments were described in sufficient detail in the original paper to enable us to design protocols to repeat the experiments,” said the authors of the reproducibility effort, and fewer than half of the original authors were very helpful in untangling things. But critics argue that one-time replication attempts don’t tell the whole story.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div>