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Why would a scientist want to replicate another scientist's experiment?

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A scientist B might want to replicate the experiment of another scientist A in order to assess the claims made by scientist A. In other words, replication of the experiment of another scientist is done to see if a similar outcome would be arrived at or there would be variations.

The claims made by a scientist while reporting the outcome of a particular experiment must be reproducible by another scientist under similar conditions. Otherwise, the claims are said to be false.

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