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Retric an hour ago

From a pure statistical perspective the first scientific paper shouldn’t update your beliefs as much as the independent replication study.

People don’t behave this way, but a high percentage of all papers have known flaws and that goes up even higher when you consider unknown flaws. Replication doesn’t own its own solve the underlying issue, but independent replication removes a huge range of potential issues on top of providing more information.