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Reproducibility: Don't cry wolf

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Tighten the requirements for declaring physics breakthroughs, says Jan Conrad.

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  1. Jan Conrad is professor of astroparticle physics at the Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmoparticle Physics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.,

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