Placing trust in science can be easier when findings are confirmed, but a new survey finds that most scientists believe there is a “crisis” in reproducibility.
Specifically, 52 percent reported that replicating results is a “significant” problem and another 38 percent believe a “slight crisis” exists. More than 70 percent of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist’s experiments, according to Nature, which canvassed 1,576 researchers. And more than half of the respondents reported that they failed to reproduce their own experiments.
