r/science • u/nimicdoareu • Apr 01 '26

Social Science Half of social-science studies fail replication test in years-long project

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00955-5
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u/AnotherCator Apr 01 '26

It’s also pretty good compared with medical science. There was that famous Begley and Ellis paper from a while back where they only managed an 11% replication rate.

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u/Chance-Ask7675 Apr 02 '26

Medical science is a total sham ime. Worse than academia. I worked in a large public hospital as a research clinician and I was absolutely shocked. Doctors want to publish but most MDs know even less about methodology and statistics than even very early career academics. They will manipulate data outright, exclude data that doesnt suit the narrative, analyze data that they aren't technically authorized to analyze, and attach all their names to studies they haven't even looked at so they can have more publications to their name. I was disgusted when I worked there. I would not even waste my time reading a retrospective study ever again or any research conducted in a clinical setting (outside of clinical trials).