= Replication crisis
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The replication crisis refers to a significant methodological issue faced by many scientific fields, particularly psychology, social sciences, and biomedical research, where studies are found to be difficult or impossible to replicate. This issue gained widespread attention in the early 2010s when researchers began to systematically attempt to reproduce the results of previously published studies and found that a substantial number of them failed to replicate.
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