[michaelt]

> But what really gets me is the disconnect between "most scientists agree there is a reproducibility crisis" and "most scientists believe most of the papers they read are basically true and reproducible". [...] I do not know how you square that circle.

If I was an academic, I imagine I would think:

1. Well, most of the papers I read are widely cited, reputable papers in widely read, reputable journals. A paper with 50 citations couldn't possibly be unreproducable!

2. Everyone knows there are scam journals and conferences that will accept everything. I'm sure it'd be easy to get a bad work accepted there, but I don't read anything like that.

3. And anyway, aren't the problems mostly in other fields? Everyone knows there are problems in comparative international underwater sports broadcasting studies, not serious subjects like mine.