I sometimes teach Research Methods. One lesson, I explain scientific method, honest empiricism, falliblism, and how most experiments don't have the expected "su

I sometimes teach Research Methods. One lesson, I explain scientific method, honest empiricism, falliblism, and how most experiments don't have the expected "successful" outcome. I explain that you can still get an A+ grade from a completely failed experiment if the results are analysed properly. I see rows of blinking, uncomprehending eyes and looks of confusion. How can you fail, and yet succeed? It takes months to beat the "perfomative ego" out of them, and even then some would still rather fudge their results to feign "success" than report what feels like failure. Market economics and a culture of "success uber alles" have done so much to damage science in deep and subtle ways.