By 
Matt Anticole
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TED-Ed Original

Is there a reproducibility crisis in science?

Published scientific studies can motivate research inspire products and inform policy. However recent studies that examined dozens of published pharmaceutical papers managed to replicate the results of less than 25% of them — and similar results have been found in other scientific disciplines. How do we combat this crisis of scientific irreproducibility? Matt Anticole investigates.

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