Science has put its money where its mouth is. In this week's issue, the editor Jeremy Berg writes about "Replication Challenges". They have published not one, but three NIH-funded replication studies of an earlier paper. That is the good news. The bad news is that a sister journal published a 10-patient human clinical trial, also based on the original paper, in parallel with the 3 replication studies. Like all 3 replication studies, the human study was not able to reproduce the effect claimed in the original paper.
Can you see why journals may be reluctant to press forward with publishing replication studies? They can certainly get their noses bloodied. DTLR commends the editor of Science for restating his commitment to publishing replication studies.
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