Too often, scientific findings in biomedical research cannot be reproduced 2 consequently, resources and time are wasted, and the credibility of scientific findings are put at risk. However, reality does not always meet these expectations. In theory, researchers should be able to re-create experiments, generate the same results, and arrive at the same conclusions, thus helping to validate and strengthen the original work. Stanford University medical researcher, John Ioannidis, a prominent scholar on reproducibility in science, has pointed out that the importance of reproducibility does not have to do with ensuring the ‘correctness’ of results, but rather with ensuring the transparency of exactly what was done in a given line of research 1. The self-correcting mechanisms of the scientific method depend on the ability of researchers to reproduce the findings of published studies in order to strengthen evidence and build upon existing work. Independent verification of data is a fundamental principle of scientific research across the disciplines. There are several reasons why an experiment cannot be replicated.
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