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Wouldn't you expect that given enough experiments, you'll have some number of well done experiments that just have weird sample groups? It's well known that if you go fishing in large populations you'll find associations that disappear if you do repeated studies with different subjects. There's clearly a bias to publish interesting results, so it seems natural to expect a lot of interesting findings to not be replicable, even if the study is carefully done and there's no ill intent.



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