I heard this first hand from Judah Folkman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judah_Folkman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judah_Folkman) at a seminar in 1999. He was

I heard this first hand from Judah Folkman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judah_Folkman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judah_Folkman) at a seminar in 1999. He was discussing news reports that other labs were unable to reproduce the anti-cancer properties of certain proteins discovered by an MD in his lab. He said (paraphrasing): Scientists become upset when other researchers cannot reproduce their results. Surgeons become upset when other surgeons can.