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1,500 scientists lift the lid on reproducibility

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    An earlier version of the graphic ‘Is there a reproducibility crisis’ inadvertently switched the labels for ‘Don’t know’ and ‘No, there is no crisis’. The labels are now with the correct percentages.

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