You get somebody to replicate it and see if they come up with the same result. And that was not happening. There was no. Virtually no money spent on replication. And because of that, there was huge incentives to cheat because scientists, if they have a hypothesis and they do, they get a grant, maybe hundreds, thousands, maybe millions of dollars to prove that hypothesis. (22:06–22:09)
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Asserts that there was virtually no funding allocated for replicating scientific studies.
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