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 The {{w|replication crisis}} in science refers to the existence of a large number of published scientific results that others are unable to reproduce. One aspect of the scientific method is the replication of results, so the failure to replicate some results casts doubt on the validity of the results and scientific knowledge built on them. Research into the replication crisis itself [https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/replication-crisis has been done], with a number of studies being redone and the results compared with the original studies. In this comic, a research team is looking to see if the situation has improved and end up "reproducing" the same results of the early reproduction crisis papers.
-The joke is about reproducing a paper about being unable to reproduce papers, while both papers show there is general issue with reproducibility, in this narrow case the scientists were able to reproduce an earlier result, hence the "solved" newspaper headline.
+The joke is about reproducing a paper about being unable to reproduce papers; while both papers show there is general issue with reproducibility, in this narrow case the scientists were able to reproduce an earlier result, hence the "solved" newspaper headline.
 There is a further possible jab: the replication crisis has indeed been "solved", in that the paper authors have shown that the same problems crop up even when scientists are aware of the issue. The "solution" is that the problems persist whether or not the scientists are aware of the replication crisis, so one could simply do science as if the crisis did not happen. This would be not so much a 'solution' as a counsel of despair. [[1574: Trouble for Science]] explores an issue similar to this comic's.

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 :[Megan, Ponytail, and Cueball are standing at a lectern. Ponytail is talking into the microphone.]
-:Ponytail: In the early 2010s, researchers  found that many major scientific results couldn't be reproduced.
+:Ponytail: In the early 2010s, researchers found that many major scientific results couldn't be reproduced.
 :[Ponytail turns her head slightly to look around the room.]

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 :[Megan, Ponytail, and Cueball are standing at a lectern. Ponytail is talking into the microphone.]
-:Ponytail: In the early 2010s, researchers found that many major scientific results couldn't be reproduced.
+:Ponytail: In the early 2010s, researchers  found that many major scientific results couldn't be reproduced.
 :[Ponytail turns her head slightly to look around the room.]

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 :[This panel shows a newspaper, with title "NEWS" surrounded by flourishes. There is a photo of the panel #2 without the text.  There is much illegible text around the picture. The headline reads:]
-:REPLICATION CRISIS SOLVED
+:'''REPLICATION CRISIS SOLVED'''
 {{comic discussion}}<noinclude>

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 ==Transcript==
-: [Megan, Ponytail, and Cueball are standing at a lectern. Ponytail is talking into the microphone.]
+:[Megan, Ponytail, and Cueball are standing at a lectern. Ponytail is talking into the microphone.]
-: Ponytail: In the early 2010s, researchers found that many major scientific results couldn't be reproduced.
+:Ponytail: In the early 2010s, researchers found that many major scientific results couldn't be reproduced.
-: [Ponytail turns her head slightly to look around the room.]
+:[Ponytail turns her head slightly to look around the room.]
-: Ponytail: Over a decade into the replication crisis, we wanted to see if today's studies have become more robust.
+:Ponytail: Over a decade into the replication crisis, we wanted to see if today's studies have become more robust.
-: [Ponytail looks back at the original place she was looking]
+:[Ponytail looks back at the original place she was looking]
-: Ponytail: Unfortunately, our replication analysis has found exactly the same problems that those 2010s researchers did.
+:Ponytail: Unfortunately, our replication analysis has found exactly the same problems that those 2010s researchers did.
-: [This panel shows a newspaper, with title "NEWS" surrounded by flourishes. There is a photo of the panel #2 without the text. The headline reads: "REPLICATION CRISIS SOLVED". There is much illegible text around the picture]
+:[This panel shows a newspaper, with title "NEWS" surrounded by flourishes. There is a photo of the panel #2 without the text.  There is much illegible text around the picture. The headline reads:]
 {{comic discussion}}<noinclude>

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	The {{w\|replication crisis}} in science refers to the existence of a large number of published scientific results that others are unable to reproduce. One aspect of the scientific method is the replication of results, so the failure to replicate some results casts doubt on the validity of the results and scientific knowledge built on them. Research into the replication crisis itself [https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/replication-crisis has been done], with a number of studies being redone and the results compared with the original studies. In this comic, a research team is looking to see if the situation has improved and end up "reproducing" the same results of the early reproduction crisis papers.		The {{w\|replication crisis}} in science refers to the existence of a large number of published scientific results that others are unable to reproduce. One aspect of the scientific method is the replication of results, so the failure to replicate some results casts doubt on the validity of the results and scientific knowledge built on them. Research into the replication crisis itself [https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/replication-crisis has been done], with a number of studies being redone and the results compared with the original studies. In this comic, a research team is looking to see if the situation has improved and end up "reproducing" the same results of the early reproduction crisis papers.