> There's also a tendency to ignore (find reason to discount) results that aren't reproducible or don't make sense. ... There's a tendency to debug until you ge

> There's also a tendency to ignore (find reason to discount) results that aren't reproducible or don't make sense. ... There's a tendency to debug until you get results that are consistent with prior work. A lot of people fall into that trap actually. It's called confirmation bias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias Even Einstein (Einstein, of all people) when his findings suggested a Big Bang, adjusted them so that they would fit in the then-believed-to-be-true static universe model. He called it his greatest mistake. Confirmation bias.