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In December, the US government approved a $2 billion increase in the budget of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the 2016 fiscal year. With that increase comes relief, optimism and the pressure to spend wisely.
Reproducibility projects yield headline-grabbing numbers, not practical steps for minimizing the investment in and publication of irreproducible research. If used inappropriately, these numbers may have unintended consequences.