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Partially. People forget that science is also REALLY hard. I have personally had to retract results I presented at a conference after not being able to replicat
by biofox 5y ago
Partially. People forget that science is also REALLY hard. I have personally had to retract results I presented at a conference after not being able to replicate my own findings -- and I was following best-practices and being scientifically rigorous during the original experiments. I have never been able to figure out what went wrong, but it was extremely embarrassing.
- hutzlibu 5y ago"I have never been able to figure out what went wrong, but it was extremely embarrassing." Kudos for retracting. Integrity is probably more important for science, than intelligence (not meant as offense, there are a million reasons a experiment can produce odd one time results). Too many published results seem to not be reproducible anymore and not many are even trying, as there is little benefit in reconfirming findings, but rather incentive to publish, publish, publish. Quantity over quality it seems. We somehow need to change that again.