>"But that doesn't matter, because non-replicable research is still non-replicable research"
Exactly, the people who say direct replications are unnecessary are the ones fostering an environment for fraud. To the scientist it doesn't matter much why you couldn't describe what you did well enough for other people to repeat it. Maybe you made it up, maybe it depended upon the (unmeasured) magnetic field in your room, whatever.
Exactly, the people who say direct replications are unnecessary are the ones fostering an environment for fraud. To the scientist it doesn't matter much why you couldn't describe what you did well enough for other people to repeat it. Maybe you made it up, maybe it depended upon the (unmeasured) magnetic field in your room, whatever.