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The Trouble With Replication, Nature
 









Excerpts: The idea that readers should be able to replicate published scientific
results is seen as the bedrock of modern science. But what if replication proves
difficult or impossible? (...)  In other disciplines, results are corroborated
rather then reproduced. If an identical description of the fossil found by
palaeontologist Jennifer Clack6, based at the University of Cambridge, UK, was
published elsewhere, for example, it would look more like plagiarism than
replication. Her interpretation, though, has undergone something like
replication; similar fossils that date from the same period have since been
found and described in a way that conforms with her conclusions.
Source: The Trouble With Replication[
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v442/n7101/full/442344a.html ], Jim Giles,
DOI: 10.1038/442344a, Nature 442, 344-347, 06/07/27

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