Claims that reproducibility crisis ‘overblown’ spark debate

Reproducibilty is crucial to science and to other fields. Hand in hand with it is the problem that important decisions are often based on the findings of single papers that aren't confirmed by independent researchers. IIRC, the ban on DDT, a ban that killed millions of people, was based on a single paper. Ditto the ban on CFC's on the assumption that they were destroying the ozone layer. And it's not just me. I spoke recently with a PhD recipient who said that a widespread belief and practice in his field (in medicine) was based on a single paper that his PhD has cast doubt on. If we don't fix this reproducibilty problem now then academic publishing is in danger of being like advertising, making claims that cannot be substantiated in order to get some advantage over others.