We're all too used to seeing news of a "reproducibility crisis" in science.
So it is interesting to find that a huge project that reviewed a whole field - Drosophila fruit fly immunity - over 50 years has found that at least 61% of claims in it are verifiable. 🧪🧵1/10
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
Giant study finds a research field that’s mostly reproducible
Researchers assessed more than 1,000 results from fruit-fly immunity research published between 1959 and 2011. The majority of findings look verifiable.
