(Essay found in Nesselroade & Grimm, 2019; pgs. 236 – 237) If there is a “ground zero” for the current reproducibility crisis in the social, behavioral, and medical sciences, it may be found in the personhood of John Ioannidis, Professor of Medicine and of Health Research and Policy at the Stanford University School of Medicine. In 2005, he published an article in PLoS Medicine entitled, “Why Most Published Research Findings are False.” As one might imagine, this article created a firestorm of controversy as well as an avalanche of articles reacting to this claim; some supporting (e.g., Freedman, 2010), some