Reproducibility: science's consistency issue

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Dr Chris Smith

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🗓️ 15 November 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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This week, we're talking about the so-called scientific reproducibility crisis: an alarming sounding study was released earlier this year which concluded that less than one third of breast cancer research papers had reproducible results. So who's to blame? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:06.0	Welcome.
0:07.0	This is the show where we bring science.
0:09.0	What that essentially means is discovery is
0:11.0	advances, research, technology, unbelievable.
0:14.7	Without further ado, this is the naked scientist.
0:19.0	Hello and welcome to the naked scientist, the program that brings you the latest breakthroughs in
0:23.0	science technology and medicine with me Chris Smith and with James Tico and this
0:27.4	week we're talking about the so-called scientific reproducibility crisis an alarming sounding study was released earlier this year
0:34.4	that concluded that less than one third of breast cancer research papers had reproducible
0:38.5	results. So what are the consequences and who's to blame?
0:42.3	The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk. Over 70% of researchers have failed to reproduce and other scientists' experiments and over half have failed to reproduce some of their
1:05.2	own experimental results. So are these statistics as worrying as they sound, and what are the reasons
1:11.1	behind such a lack of reproducible results?
1:14.2	To introduce the topic from the University of Bristol, Marcus Manafo is with us.
1:18.8	He's the chair of the UK Reproducibility Network, which describes itself as a national peer-led
1:24.1	consortium that aims to ensure the UK retains its place as a center for world-leading
1:29.0	research. Marcus, welcome to the program. First of all, what does reproducibility actually mean in a scientific
1:35.2	context and why is it so important?
1:37.5	In this context, reproducibility means that if you were to run an experiment again, you would
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