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is CBS I on the world with John Bachelor. Here's John Bachelor.

I welcome Dr. Henry Miller a physician to help me understand an article he and his

colleague have published recently in two parts, Why is Trust in Scientific Research at

an all-time low?

Henry Miller and Stanley Young.

Henry, I go to a statistic in your explication

that struck me as important, because it was not an assumption I would have made on my own reasoning,

which is that replication of results.

90% of 1500 scientists of Now in Hard Sciences, isn't that the story?

replication moves along the case that there's a genuine discovery here worth discussion.

If 90% of these scientists believe there's a problem, how widespread

is it? What's happened? Good evening to you, Henry.

Good evening, John. Well, in the scientific method, reproducibility or the ability to replicate an experiment is all important because it's the essence of knowing whether your results are real or not.

And in the hard sciences, chemistry, biochemistry,

physics, we do somewhat better than the soft sciences like sociology and

psychology, but that's sort of beside the point.

Now, when it comes to the difficulty or the inability to replicate

an experiment, even in the same laboratory from one month to another, it can be a number of things.

It can be that you're using a different batch of cells or a different breed of rats in the

experiment or contamination of some of your your liquid reagents that give you a different outcome in the experiment.

There's an old saying in the laboratories that I used to work in.

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