When I ask Simon Baron-Cohen to give me his own thoughts on the experiment, he tells me by e-mail, “It was designed thoroughly and was scrutinised through peer review and as such it met the bar for good science. No study is above criticism in the sense that one can always think of ways to improve the study, and I hope when a replication is attempted, it will also be improved.” In fact, replication has been one of the biggest problems for the experiment. To date, nobody has attempted to copy it to check if the findings were reliable.
