title: The Problem of False Discovery: Many Scientific Results Can't Be Replicated, Leading to Serious Questions about What's True and False in the World of Research.
abstract: Is there a Cheshire Cat in science? One might believe so, given the many published scientific discoveries that cannot be independently reproduced. The ?replication crisis? in science has become a widely discussed issue among scientists and the lay media and even has its own entry in Wikipedia.
authors.forename: Kenneth R
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Foster
authors.forename: Joseph
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Skufca
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends*; D005189:False Positive Reactions; D006801:Humans; D015203:Reproducibility of Results