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The high failure rate of venture-backed startups is its own kind of replication crisis: “How could my company fail? I followed the growth-hacking, blitz-scaling advice from the founders who made it big!” A study in 2016 showed that 70% of scientists failed to replicate another scientist’s work, and fully half had failed to reproduce their own work. The crisis in science has multiple, interconnected causes: taking techniques from simpler systems and applying them to the far more complex study of humans.