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They also should begin now to revise their procedures for the Fifth Edition—above all by commissioning a chapter on the irreproducibility crisis.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

Slowly, scientists are internalizing the lessons of this irreproducibility crisis.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2018

Leonard Freedman, the lead author of the paper on the economics of irreproducibility, has been pushing very hard for scientists to pay attention to the cell lines that they use in research.

From Slate • Apr. 19, 2016

Freedman and his colleagues defined irreproducibility broadly, as being any errors or omissions that prevent attempts to replicate experimental findings.

From Nature • Jun. 8, 2015

Lander, who played a leading role in the decoding of the human genome, says the irreproducibility problem is caused in part by the many variables that go into any experiment.

From Washington Post • Jan. 27, 2015