• Jake Farm
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    9 hours ago

    Isn’t there a replication crisis. I am not sure you can really claim “most” research is legit.

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      8 hours ago

      I wouldn’t call it a broad crisis, and it isn’t universal. More theoretical sciences or social sciences are more prone to it because the experiments are more expensive and you can’t really control the environment the way you can with e.g. mice or specific chemicals. But most biology, chemistry, etc that isn’t bleeding edge or incredibly niche will be validated dozens to hundreds of times as people build on the work and true retractions are rare