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Something in switzerland called the Large Hadron Collider comes to mind.

I guess we should not talk about the Higgs before someone else builds a second one and replicates the papers.

Physics is generally better since they have good statistical models and can get six sigma (or whatever) results.

And replication can be done by the same party (although an independent party is better), and that may mean many trials.

And do we even set policy based on existence or non-existent of higgs bosons?

I am particularly unhappy with soft sciences in terms of replication.