[Esip-preserve] Two Articles in current press of interest on replicating results

[Bruce Barkstrom]

The new issue of The New Yorker has an article:

Goodyear, D., 2016: The Stress Test: Competition and intrigue in
   stem-cell research, The New Yorker, Feb. 29, 2016, pp. 46-57

It recounts the replication problems in stem-cell research and the
unfortunate fall-out from lack of repeatability.

The second is a brief snippet in the new issue of Scientific American:

Hackett, J., 2016: Classification Conundrum: Scores of museum
   specimens carry a name that isn't theirs, Scientific American, 314,
   No. 3, p. 22

This one references an article in Current Biology that says researchers
at the Univ. of Oxford and the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
analyzed the tags on 4,500 specimens of African ginger and 49,000
specimens of morning glories.  They found that "at least half of the
names associated with those specimens were synonyms or illegitimate
names" according to botanist Robert Scotland.

The TNY article claims that stress testing reproducibility worked as
it should from the standpoint of the scientific method.  The second
suggests that maybe group efforts could work on the issue in that
article.

Sigh!  So much work to bring perfection to our efforts.

Bruce B.
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