If you've ever been within a mile of a research lab this shouldn't be remotely shocking. Typical research is done rapidly, sloppily, and in a context where getting the "right" answer is the only incentive.
The replication crisis that hit psych is only being held back by (IMO) that bio is harder to replicate due to tooling, protocols, reagents, cell lines, etc.
In complex systems you have the degrees of freedom to be wrong at a scale that folks still do not appreciate.
If you've ever been within a mile of a research lab this shouldn't be remotely shocking. Typical research is done rapidly, sloppily, and in a context where getting the "right" answer is the only incentive.
The replication crisis that hit psych is only being held back by (IMO) that bio is harder to replicate due to tooling, protocols, reagents, cell lines, etc.
In complex systems you have the degrees of freedom to be wrong at a scale that folks still do not appreciate.