One is forced to wonder how many of these alleged results are simply exaggerations or outright falsification calculated to perpetuate grants and other funding...?
Really dangerous when it comes to pharmaceutical development.
I know it didn’t used to be that way, but I do fear that over time, competition for money has probably been a factor in reproducibility. (In my early years, I was a researcher. My experience then has led me to believe that global warming research is all bull hockey.)