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It is tragic to imagine the amount of time wasted by repeating the unpublished experiments of others. It is even more tragic to imagine that someone might be a
by bmh100 12y ago
It is tragic to imagine the amount of time wasted by repeating the unpublished experiments of others. It is even more tragic to imagine that someone might be able to gain a hidden insight by finding the gaps in various negative results, which might remain undiscovered for a long time otherwise.
- monksy 12y agoThe problem is that there is such a huge priority on successful research and there is a self-consciousness about funding/research that didn't go as well as expected.
- bmh100 12y agoIndeed. It would be ironic if some of those less successful results were the result of hiding earlier, less successful results.