[garden_hermit]

There are tons of replication issues across the sciences, they are just most salient in the Social Sciences because the topic is just really hard to study well.

Clinical trials can often be flawed, even if the stats are fine, just in how they sample. For example, women are often excluded from trials due to hormonal changes, but how drugs impact women is really important! Participants are also typically drawn from specific locations, and so may not be representative of people with different diets, lifestyles, and environmental factors.

Physics has its own controversies, though not always directly related to replication. For example, Harry Collins recounts the social factors involved in the discovery of gravitational waves: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/books/2017/03/28/harry-collins-...