Attempt to replicate major social scientific findings of past decade fails

Scientists and the design of experiments under scrutiny after a major project fails to reproduce results of high profile studies

Some of the most high profile findings in social sciences of the past decade do not stand up to replication, a major investigation has found.

The project, which aimed to repeat 21 experiments that had been published in Science or Nature - science's two preeminent journals - found that only 13 of the original findings could be reproduced.