Cracking the Foundation: The Science Community's Reckoning With Its Own Unreliable Results
A growing body of evidence suggests that a substantial majority of published scientific findings cannot be independently confirmed—a revelation that has prompted urgent scrutiny of the systems governing how research is conducted, reviewed, and disseminated. From psychology laboratories to cancer biology units, the reproducibility crisis has exposed deep structural vulnerabilities in academic science. Researchers, institutions, and journals are now mobilizing around a suite of reforms designed to