Instead of replicating studies with problems, let’s replicate the good studies. (Consider replication as an honor, not an attack.)

Commenter Thanatos Savehn pointed to an official National Academy of Sciences report on Reproducibility and Replicability that included the following “set of criteria to help determine when testing replicability may be warranted”: 1) The scientific results are important for individual decision-making or for policy decisions. 2) The results have the potential to make a large …