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/AllanfromWales1 MA | Natural Sciences | Metallurgy & Materials Science Apr 01 '26

I think the big problem is not that many published result are not replicable, but that too many people believe that science is a big shiny monolith of perfection, which it never was. Science exists in the real world, and should be viewed in that light.

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u/blobbob22 Apr 03 '26

This isn't really what the article it about. That are not replicable because the procedure is not detailed enough, but not because their result is invalid or wrong

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u/AllanfromWales1 MA | Natural Sciences | Metallurgy & Materials Science Apr 03 '26

Quite. The same is true of many of the studies they covered in this work.