The House of Commons’ Science, Innovation and Tech Committee has a new report, on “reproducibility and research integrity”

The committee finds, “there have been increasing concerns raised that the integrity of some scientific research is questionable because of failures to be able to reproduce the claimed findings of some experiments or analyses of data and therefore confirm that the original researcher’s conclusions were justified”

And it recommends, “training researchers in research integrity and the need to ensure reproducibility is inconsistent and often absent. We recommend mandating the provision of such training at undergraduate, postgraduate and early career researcher stages.”

At least the Brits are on to it – if a Senate committee wanted to hold an inquiry it could be hard finding out who to ask.

Adrian Barnett and colleagues surveyed research integrity advisers here, and found finding, “there were multiple institutions where we found it difficult to find anything about research integrity and other institutions where the contact about research integrity was a generic email or generic on-line form,” (CMM May 8).