Is the evidence for the work your doing backed up to make it more reliable?

Question: Is the evidence for the work your doing backed up to make it more reliable?
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Asked by to Simon on 18 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
- Simon Redfern answered on 18 Jun 2014:
  
  in research the reproducibility of results is very important. So if you get an unexpected result that you can repeat, it probably means something happened in your first experiment that you didn’t take account of, or which you were unaware of. Matching the results you get in experiments with the results you see from other approaches is always an important test of reliability.

Question: Is the evidence for the work your doing backed up to make it more reliable?