Is There a Replication Crisis?

John Sutter: Something has gone very wrong in the basic research complex that we do have. He says 50% of published research is fake, which means you can't basically reproduce the same results. One study shows new medicines stopped working when funders required researchers to register their experiments ahead of time. The implication is there are a lot of drugs on the market today that probably don't actually work," he says. "The whole complex of science right now is like in an existential crisis"