"What does the research say?"

When people repeatedly ask this it seems they are asking "What are the facts?".

But shouldn't they also ask:
* Has it been replicated?
* Who financed the research?
* Who performed the research?
* Who was part of the research?

🤔

In 2010 the term "replication crisis" was coined when scientists kept finding that the results of many scientific studies are difficult or impossible to replicate/reproduce on subsequent investigation, either by independent researchers or by the original researchers themselves.

Here's the Wikipedia article on that term, replication crisis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis

[I'll be moving this old thread of mine to this account bit by bit over the next weeks]