Posts with tag Drug discovery

Back in May 2016, the scientific publication Nature surveyed over 1,500 researchers to find out how reproducible their work was. This question goes to the very core of the scientific method, and has formed the backbone of countless clinical trials. As it turns out, the results were pretty bleak. More than 70% of those surveyed tried and failed to reproduce the results of another scientist, and 73% said that only around half of the papers in their field can be trusted. This phenomenon, colloquially...