Science is in a reproducibility crisis: How do we resolve it?

Phys.org ^ | Sep 20, 2013 | Fiona Fidler and Ascelin Gordon

[Olog-hai]

Over the past few years, there has been a growing awareness that many experimentally established “facts” don’t seem to hold up to repeated investigation.

This was highlighted in a 2010 article in the New Yorker entitled The Truth Wears Off and since then, there have been many popular press accounts of different aspects of science’s current reproducibility crisis.

These include an exposé of the increasing number of retractions by scientific journals and damning demonstrations of failures to replicate high profile studies.

Articles in recent days have discussed how the majority of scientists might be more interested in funding and fame than “truth” and are becoming increasingly reluctant to share unpublished details of their work. …

[fishtank]

I have a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M and I work for a defense contractor.

Having said that, science is in a crisis.

When we get to the point where many scientists think it’s OK to lie and cheat about research, that’s a crisis.

[Moonman62]

When we get to the point where many scientists think it’s OK to lie and cheat about research, that’s a crisis.

How many is many?

[<1/1,000,000th%]

:o

[R7 Rocket]

I know that the climate “scientists” are promoting pseudoscience. But I have a question, do you really have a degree in nuclear engineering?

[Gene Eric]

>> but let’s see how many FReepers use this as an opportunity to bash science.

Would that depend on how many FReepers you’re trying to bash?

[Gene Eric]

>> How many is many?

Many of course; ergo, the crisis.