Replication of Results Is The Benchmark of Good Science

The Scientific Method is the formula which guides the reasoned investigation of our world. A lynch pin construct of the Method is that research is verifiable and repeatable. In other words, if your claim of achieved result can not be replicated, it can not be trusted to be a fact.

Those thoughts were brought to mind by the notice of an article about Nature magazine and its assertion that it wishes to publish replications.

Nature says it wants to publish replication attempts. So what happened when a group of authors submitted one to Nature Neuroscience?

 That retractionwatch.com article makes it seem the magazine was less than sincere in their interest in publishing such:

People often ask why our replication study was not published in Nature Neuroscience, especially in light of its recent public commitments to replication research (here and here). It certainly wasn’t for our lack of trying.