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> Our focus shouldn't be on exact replication, and should be on how generalizable such results are.

This is how I normally look at things. If I can't easily replicate an experiment, then it's very likely to be wrong.

Sadly, it's pretty rare (and exciting) when you can easily do something based on the methods in someone's paper




Well that shouldn't necessarily be the standard. There are lots of people I know that can't do a miniprep or run a gel. It doesn't mean that those things don't work or aren't replicable.




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