More than a decade ago, Glenn Begley and Lee Ellis published a paper with astounding findings: of 53 “landmark” studies, only six, or 11%, were reproducible, even with the same reagents and the same protocols—and even, sometimes, in the same laboratory—as the original study.
The call to Fire Captain Brian Buchanan and his crew came at midnight. Northern California firefighters were urgently needed to help fight the wildfires that were devouring big swaths of Los Angeles.
