Sunday, November 15, 2020

Could you repeat that? Fixing the 'replication crisis' in biomedical research has become top priority | Hub

Could you repeat that? Fixing the 'replication crisis' in biomedical research has become top priority | Hub
  • When research can't be reproduced
"Biomedical research illuminates the world and saves lives. 
It's also messy, tedious, and often frustrating. 
...But recent years have seen a nationwide rise in highly publicized studies that proved problematic. 
The issue became clear in 2011, when the pharmaceutical company Bayer conducted its own reproducibility tests on 67 published experiments and failed to get similar results on 53.
Bayer's inability to reproduce potentially lifesaving research shook the scientific world...Read all.

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