77. What is the main idea of the passage?
(A) Scientists tend to think of science as self-correcting, but it is not.
(B) Politicians should not have used priming studies to please the populace.
(C) Reproducibility is the foundation for verifying scientific research.
(D) Irreproducibility has troubled scientists and governments.

In the 6th paragrapg, the author claimed that "But they [academic scientists] also hold fast to the idea that these errors get corrected over time as other scientists try to take the work further. Evidence that many more dodgy results are published than are subsequently corrected or withdrawn calls that much-vaunted capacity for self-correction into question." These sentences advocate the idea that scientists tend to think of their work as self-correcting, whereas it is inappropriate to do so.