{"id":8328,"date":"2026-04-17T17:11:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T15:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zerospike.org\/?p=8328"},"modified":"2026-04-17T17:12:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T15:12:32","slug":"a-massive-reproducibility-project-in-brazil-found-that-only-15-45-of-biomedical-studies-could-be-replicated-when-rt-pcr-and-rodent-models-the-literal-bread-and-butter-of-life-sci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zerospike.org\/en\/a-massive-reproducibility-project-in-brazil-found-that-only-15-45-of-biomedical-studies-could-be-replicated-when-rt-pcr-and-rodent-models-the-literal-bread-and-butter-of-life-sci\/","title":{"rendered":"A massive reproducibility project in Brazil found that only 15\u201345% of biomedical studies could be replicated.\u00a0When RT-PCR and rodent models\u2014the literal bread and butter of life sciences\u2014fail to validate at this scale, the &#8220;gold standard&#8221; is looking more like tinfoil. If the majority of scientific publications cannot be reproduced or replicated, science doesn\u2019t just have a technical problem\u2014it has a trust problem."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sources:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-025-01266-x\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-025-01266-x<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>2.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/elifesciences.org\/interviews\/388d5959\/brazilian-reproducibility-initiative\">https:\/\/elifesciences.org\/interviews\/388d5959\/brazilian-reproducibility-initiative<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more on why we cannot &#8220;trust the science:&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/viroliegynewsletter.substack.com\/p\/trust-the-science\">https:\/\/viroliegynewsletter.substack.com\/p\/trust-the-science<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"594\" src=\"https:\/\/zerospike.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-17_17-06-29.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zerospike.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-17_17-06-29.jpg 500w, https:\/\/zerospike.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-17_17-06-29-253x300.jpg 253w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sources: 2.\u00a0https:\/\/elifesciences.org\/interviews\/388d5959\/brazilian-reproducibility-initiative For more on why we cannot &#8220;trust the science:&#8221; https:\/\/viroliegynewsletter.substack.com\/p\/trust-the-science<\/p>","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zerospike.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zerospike.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zerospike.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zerospike.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zerospike.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zerospike.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8333,"href":"https:\/\/zerospike.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8328\/revisions\/8333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zerospike.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zerospike.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zerospike.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}