I think the critique and crisis stems more from research that presents optimistic, or potentially embellished results, rather than failed experiments, or experiments with small sample sizes. There seems to be pressure to generate “novel” research that presents profound results rather than admitting an experiment yielded nothing. Admitting nothing came from a study would prevent more people from wasting hours, days and years of time trying to replicate or study something that isn’t true or doesn’t seem to work.