Scientists, Share Secrets or Lose Funding: Stodden and Arbesman
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Jan. 10 (Bloomberg) -- The Journal of IrreproducibleResults, a science-humor magazine, is, sadly, no longer the onlypublication that can lay claim to its title. More and morepublished scientific studies are difficult or impossible torepeat.
It’s not that the experiments themselves are so flawed theycan’t be redone to the same effect -- though this happens morethan scientists would like. It’s that the data upon which thework is based, as well as the methods employed, are too oftennot published, leaving the science hidden.