Guest post: NIH-funded replication studies are not the answer to the reproducibility crisis in pre-clinical research

Guest post: NIH-funded replication studies are not the answer to the reproducibility crisis in pre-clinical research

Barbara Smaller/The New Yorker Collection/The Cartoon Bank President Trump recently issued an executive order calling for improvement in the reproducibility of scientific research and asking federal agencies to propose how they will make that happen. I imagine that the National Institutes of Health’s response will include replication studies, in which NIH would fund attempts to repeat published experiments from the ground up, to see if they gene…