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by James_Henry 2130 days ago
If it can't be trivially repeated, then you should publish what you have with an explanation of how you got it. Saying that "the researcher should just rerun the analysis" is not taking into account the fact that this could be very expensive and that you can learn a lot from observations that come from messy systems. Science is about more than just perfect experiments.