Mary Childs

I just think that the rate of failures is higher than what a lot of people think.

Yeah.

And it shouldn't happen that often.

In every replication game so far, they have found something.

Though not yet any career-ending fraud.

It's more like major data or coding errors or robustness fails.

Still, there are signs that the games are having an effect.

Several replication gamers told us their experience here will change how they do their research, because they know that their papers, too, might someday end up under Abel's spotlight.

If you want to hear more about the replication crisis, we've done a few episodes about it and the efforts to fix it.

We'll link to those in the show notes.

This episode was produced by Emma Peasley and James Sneed with help from Willa Rubin.

It was edited by Jess Jang, fact-checked by Sam Yellowhorse-Kessler, and engineered by Ko Takasugi-Chernowen.

Alex Goldmark is our executive producer.

I'm Alexey Horowitz-Gazi.

This is Planet Money from NPR.

I've spent 25 years doing nothing but nerding out on this stuff.

And now I know way more than anybody ever wanted to know.

I feel like the snakes just keep popping out of the peanut brittle can that is my inbox today.

Well, OK, what happens next?

Can I get a refund?