And what has been replicated 14,000 times? Probably fraud.
Probably fraud.
***Let’s examine that probability. Let’s say that 14,000 scientific researchers decided independently that they were going to defraud the scientific establishment and produce some fake result that happens to agree with all the other frauds.
If the chance that one guy is a fraud is, well, 1/5 then the chances that 14000 other frauds would replicate the result would be 1/5*1/5*1/6... or (1/5)^14000
That’s an incredibly, cosmologically small number. Mathematicians consider the chance of an impossible event to be (1/10)^50, and here you have (1/10)^2800 which is far, far, far less than impossible, let alone probable.