> If you put ethics aside, then yes there was value. Failed research is most valuable, while successful research is usually quite worthless due to the bias towa

> If you put ethics aside, then yes there was value. Failed research is most valuable, while successful research is usually quite worthless due to the bias toward finding whatever researchers already believe. True as far as it goes, but the most valuable failing research is that which fails to produce an expected positive result. Next most valuable is failing to corroborate a novel hypothesis (which is probably what you meant). When you get an expected result, you haven't learned much, regardless of whether you were (or should have been) expecting success OR failure (with the exception being getting more, or more accurate, data that narrows error bars).