I and my patients would highly value reproduction of clinical studies. It is a trope that things don't work as well in the clinic as in the research papers. More information on which studies reporduce with a smaller effect size and which studies reproduce not at all would be very helpful.
I agree that some degree of reproducibility has to happen, but I also see one big barrier beyond what you've mentioned here:
The academic system (incentive) is unfortunately not set up to support reproducibility. I've heard stories of students who need to publish in order to graduate, and their PIs needing to publish to retain funding. It's a bit of a vicious circle that has been built, with the sole focus on publications. So, short cuts are taken. Your solution of allocating budgets to repeat experiments will solve some portion of it, if we can tie it to grant approvals in some way (i.e., funding depends on some degree of reproducibility).
In my study and reading about consumer behavior research I often encountered how different authors talked about the 'reproducibility problem' in social sciences and how current and relevant this is nowadays. Reading issues like this makes me think, gives me new ideas on important topics related to research and is really informative about different aspects and perspectives. Thanks for sharing!
I and my patients would highly value reproduction of clinical studies. It is a trope that things don't work as well in the clinic as in the research papers. More information on which studies reporduce with a smaller effect size and which studies reproduce not at all would be very helpful.
I agree that some degree of reproducibility has to happen, but I also see one big barrier beyond what you've mentioned here:
The academic system (incentive) is unfortunately not set up to support reproducibility. I've heard stories of students who need to publish in order to graduate, and their PIs needing to publish to retain funding. It's a bit of a vicious circle that has been built, with the sole focus on publications. So, short cuts are taken. Your solution of allocating budgets to repeat experiments will solve some portion of it, if we can tie it to grant approvals in some way (i.e., funding depends on some degree of reproducibility).
In my study and reading about consumer behavior research I often encountered how different authors talked about the 'reproducibility problem' in social sciences and how current and relevant this is nowadays. Reading issues like this makes me think, gives me new ideas on important topics related to research and is really informative about different aspects and perspectives. Thanks for sharing!