Do We Have A Reproducibility Crisis
No. We have something else.
The aim of science is not reproducibility.
The reproducibility of phenomena and observations is a hypothesis. It has not stood up well to scientific inquiry.
The aim of science is knowledge, insight and understanding.
If scientific studies are not reproducible, that does not tell us we are doing science wrong. It tells us that reality is not mindlessly re…
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