Comment by benmmurphy

a load of variables that are needed to be controlled in order to get the original experiment to work is kind of a red flag tho. like someone could just keep trying the experiment and then adding another variable they are controlling in order to get the experiment to work. but really they are just running a bunch of experiments and getting lucky at some point. assuming they stop trying to control variables or try and replicate themselves as soon as they get a positive result :)