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horrible take. Taking the LK99 situation as an example: simply copying and adapting a well described growth recipee to your own setup and lab conditions may take weeks. And how would you address situations where measurement setups only exist once on the earth? How would you do peer replication of LHC measurements? Wait for 50 years till the next super-collider is built and someone else can finally verify the results? On a smaller scale: If you need measurements at a synchrotron radiation source to replicate a measurement, is someone supposed to give up his precious measurement time to replicate a paper he isn't interested in? And is the original author of a paper that's in the queue for peer replication supposed to wait for a year or two till the reviewer gets a beamtime on an appropriate measurement station? Even smaller: I did my PhD in a lab with a specific setup that only a single other group in the world had an equivalent to. You simply would not be able to replicate these results.

Peer replication is completely unfeasible in experimental fields of science. The current process of peer review is alright, people just need to learn that single papers standing by themselves don't mean too much. The "peer replication" happens over time anyway when others use the same tools, samples, techniques on related problems and find results in agreement with earlier papers.



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