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Letters to the editor Reproducibility of scientific findings I found the timing and tone of the article on reproducibility particularly interesting given the current state of politics (C&EN, March 17, 2025, page 20). But that set aside, what I did not read from the author of this article was a little simple advice, like, scientists need to pick up their phones and use them for what they were initially intended for. This advice, which I was given by professor Peter Schultz in 1992, accelerated my trajectory through the Chemistry Department of the University of California, Berkeley, and thanks to the new friend I made at Harvard University in the process, I published an article in Science and received my doctorate degree 3 years later. What I have found since is that there is much more to the methods section than most journals allow one to write, and thus simple but