Editor Linda Krause
Opinion: Reproducibility failures are essential to scientific inquiry (2018)
A. David Redish, Erich Kummerfeld, Rebecca Lea Morris, Alan C. Love
6 comments on PubPeer PubMed: 29765001 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1806370115
Interesting opinion article about reproducibility in science. They give examples from mathematics and computer science and say that "the discovery that an experiment does not replicate is not a lack of success but an opportunity. [...] A failure to reproduce is only the first step in scientific inquiry. In many ways, how science responds to these failures is what determines whether it succeeds." (Reproducibility failures in maths/computer science: Kempe’s proof was incorrect, Fourier’s claim was an overgeneralization, and perceptrons could not solve parity problems all lead to innovations in their fields.)