Question: Can you think of a widely accepted scientific claim that is based on a single study and no replications? [Operationalize "widely accepted" as routinely in the discipline's core knowledge textbooks.] If so, what is the claim and what was the study?
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Replying to @BrianNosek
Theoretical physics is often based on zero studies (directly), yet ends up in the discipline's core textbooks. Thousands and thousands of examples. Eg the Higgs Boson and gravity waves and BEC were in textbooks for decades before confirmation.
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Replying to @michael_nielsen @BrianNosek
Of course, it's understood that those results _are_ still theory. But then a single study may sometimes be enough to regard a result as most likely confirmed. Eg LIGO and gravitational waves.
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