Ideally, the meta-scientific evidence adduced in this book will convince almost everyone that something has gone very wrong with science, and that there’s a dire need for change. But even if you think the talk of a ‘crisis’ is grandiose or exaggerated, there’s one final argument in my quiver.122 It’s this: the reforms we’ve discussed in this chapter would all be beneficial for science even if there weren’t a replication crisis.
