#3117: Replication Crisis

[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 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 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.

[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