Question

Why must scientific claims be reproducible?
A. So that other scientists can verify the results and offer supporting evidence or alternative explanations.
B. So that other scientists can't verify the results and offer supporting evidence or alternative explanations.
C. So that scientists can take someone else's data and use it in their own scientific investigation.
D. Scientific claims do not have to be reproducible.

Answer 1

Scientific claims must be reproducible so that another scientist could take the data and use it on their own. That's also the reason why a teacher in school makes you record your whole experiment so that another classmate could take the experiment and do it again.