Science obviously works, broadly. So why is it so hard to replicate an experiment? “One answer is: Science is hard,” Errington says. “That’s why we fund research and invest billions of dollars just to make sure cancer research can have an impact on people’s lives. Which it does.”
The point of less-than-great outcomes like the cancer project’s is to distinguish between what’s good for science internally and what’s good for science when it reaches civilians. “There are two orthogonal concepts here. One is transparency, and one is validity,” says Shirley Wang, an epidemiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
The point, then, isn’t to critique specific results. It’s to make science more transparent, which should in turn make the results more replicable, more understandable, maybe even more likely to translate to the clinic. Right now, academic researchers don’t have an incentive to publish work that other researchers can replicate. The incentive is just to publish.
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