[prklbiol] Replicating big science

Science needs to be replicable.  How much needs to be documented to allow for replicability?

Inspiration was Big Science, e.g., LHC or LIGO.  Suppose one wanted to replicate those experiments.  They seem to be so big that merely a description of the hardware and actions with the hardware do not seem to be enough to replicate the experiment.  One also needs to document the human factors, the politics, the management structures, the personnel (human resources) decisions, that were done to complete the project, things that will need to be done again to replicate the project.

I suspect finding the right people is just as important a factor in successfully doing or redoing a large experiment as building and operating the hardware correctly.  Without that, you won't even get to the point of having built the hardware correctly.

If science can't be replicated because of human effects, perhaps because of insufficient documentation for managing the human effects, is it science?  It seems just as bad as omitting other key steps of the experiment, preventing replication.