Editing Reproducibility (section)

==Noteworthy irreproducible results==
[[Hideyo Noguchi]] became famous for correctly identifying the bacterial agent of [[syphilis]], but also claimed that he could culture this agent in his laboratory. Nobody else has been able to produce this latter result.<ref name="Tan Furubayashi 2014 pp. 550–551">{{cite journal|last1=Tan |first1=SY |last2=Furubayashi |first2=J |title=Hideyo Noguchi (1876-1928): Distinguished bacteriologist |journal=Singapore Medical Journal |volume=55 |issue=10 |year=2014 |issn=0037-5675 |pmid=25631898 |pmc=4293967 |doi=10.11622/smedj.2014140 |pages=550–551}}</ref>

In March 1989, [[University of Utah]] chemists Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann reported the production of excess heat that could only be explained by a nuclear process ("[[cold fusion]]"). The report was astounding given the simplicity of the equipment: it was essentially an [[electrolysis]] cell containing [[heavy water]] and a [[palladium]] [[cathode]] which rapidly absorbed the [[deuterium]] produced during electrolysis. The news media reported on the experiments widely, and it was a front-page item on many newspapers around the world (see [[science by press conference]]). Over the next several months others tried to replicate the experiment, but were unsuccessful.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Physicists Debunk Claim Of a New Kind of Fusion|newspaper=New York Times|last=Browne|first=Malcolm|url=http://partners.nytimes.com/library/national/science/050399sci-cold-fusion.html|date=3 May 1989|access-date=3 February 2017}}</ref>

[[Nikola Tesla]] claimed as early as 1899 to have used a high frequency current to light gas-filled lamps from over {{convert|25|mi|km}} away [[Wireless energy transfer|without using wires]]. In 1904 he built [[Wardenclyffe Tower]] on [[Shoreham, New York|Long Island]] to demonstrate means to send and receive power without connecting wires. The facility was never fully operational and was not completed due to economic problems, so no attempt to reproduce his first result was ever carried out.<ref>Cheney, Margaret (1999), ''Tesla, Master of Lightning'', New York: Barnes & Noble Books,  {{ISBN|0-7607-1005-8}}, pp. 107.; "Unable to overcome his financial burdens, he was forced to close the laboratory in 1905."</ref>

Other examples which contrary evidence has refuted the original claim:
* [[N-ray]]s, a hypothesized form of radiation subsequently found to be illusory
* [[Polywater]], a hypothesized polymerized form of water found to be just water with common contaminations
* [[Stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency]], revealed to be the result of fraud
* [[GFAJ-1]], a bacterium that could purportedly incorporate [[arsenic biochemistry|arsenic]] into its DNA in place of phosphorus
* [[MMR vaccine controversy]] — a study in ''[[The Lancet]]'' claiming the MMR vaccine caused autism was revealed to be fraudulent
* [[Schön scandal]] — semiconductor "breakthroughs" revealed to be fraudulent
* [[Power posing]] — a [[social psychology]] phenomenon that went viral after being the subject of a very popular [[TED talk]], but was unable to be replicated in dozens of studies<ref name="NYT_2017_Cuddy">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/18/magazine/when-the-revolution-came-for-amy-cuddy.html |title=When the Revolution Came for Amy Cuddy |first=Susan |last=Dominus |date=October 18, 2017 |work=New York Times Magazine}}</ref>