> I don't think we do. I think we need to foster a culture of honesty and rigor. Of good science. Which is decidedly different from fostering a culture of "repetition" for its own sake.

No one is proposing repetition for its own sake. The point of repetition is to create rigor, and you can't do rigorous science without repetition.

> Paying for the cost of mountains upon mountains of lab techs and materials that it would require to replicate every study published in a major journal just isn't a good use of ever-dwindling science dollars. Replicate where it's not far off the critical path. Replicate where the study is going to have a profound effect on the direction of research in several labs. But don't just replicate because "science!"

I could see a valid argument for only doing science that will be worth replicating, because if you don't bother to replicate you aren't really proving anything.