#3117: Replication Crisis
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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 turns 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: 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. The headline reads: "REPLICATION CRISIS SOLVED". There is much illegible text around the picture]
(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)
Title text:Maybe encouraging the publication of null results isn't enough--maybe we need a journal devoted to publishing results the study authors find personally annoying.