Those who do the replication are also very unlikely to get published, both in success and failure.
My impression is that replication efforts often happen when one group tries to build on another group's work and they get frustrated enough to retry the original assumptions.
That's a problem of the current system we have, not a fundamental issue like the one he's portraying. It's one of the problems we need to solve if we want science to be better.
My impression is that replication efforts often happen when one group tries to build on another group's work and they get frustrated enough to retry the original assumptions.