Replication crisis
ONGOING METHODOLOGICAL CRISIS IN SCIENCE STEMMING FROM FAILURE TO REPLICATE MANY STUDIES
Replicability crisis; Replication Crisis; Crisis of science; Science's crisis; Reproducibility crisis; Smart Assays Biotechnologies
The replication crisis (also called the replicability crisis and the reproducibility crisis) is an ongoing methodological crisis in which it has been found that the results of many scientific studies are difficult or impossible to reproduce. Because the reproducibility of empirical results is an essential part of the scientific method, such failures undermine the credibility of theories building on them and potentially call into question substantial parts of scientific knowledge.