[sjy]

> "Irreproducibility", as Nature and the common scientist would use the term, doesn't mean "I tried once and failed", it means "I tried everything I could possibly think of and it still doesn't work".

I’m not a scientist, but it is surprising to me that the term would not be regarded as at least ambiguous. The article quotes a microbiologist who says “there is no consensus on what reproducibility is or should be.”