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by TheCoelacanth 3549 days ago
Wouldn't those problems in the scientific process get corrected more easily if you contacted the original author to see if there are any details that were missed and then publish those details with your results instead of just publishing a paper that says "Nope, couldn't reproduce"?
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No, you publish the results that you cannot reproduce.

Then maybe the next generation of researchers documents their work better.

Or maybe the original researcher publishes a v2 edition of their paper.