Academic Research Largely Not Reproducible

April 8, 2012

April 9, 2012 | A new Nature commentary finds that 9 of 10 pre-clinical cancer research studies cannot be replicated. Amgen researchers tried to confirm the findings of published academic research, and could only do so in 6 of the 53 papers they considered: a result the commentary authors call "shocking." The authors don't claim fraud. Instead they blame increasingly lax standards in results reporting. The Hook