Psychology experiments are failing the replication test – how is this surprising? | John Ioannidis

Let’s not despair about these findings. There are many reasons why psychology research is hard to replicate, and the beauty of science is it tests and retests itselfScience is the best thing that has happened to humankind because its results can be questioned, retested, and demonstrated to be wrong. Science is not about proving at all cost some preconceived dogma. Conversely religious devotees, politicians, soccer fans, and pseudo-science quacks won’t allow their doctrines, promises,