Tuesday, July 05, 2005

Turning failure into success

This is a great idea, the Journal of Failed Experiments, as is the Journal of Irreproducible Results. To think of the time I might have saved over the last few years if I knew that my experiments were going to fail or if I could publish experiments that did work once but will never produce the same results again. Alas this is not how science works and even when you do get good results no one really wants to believe you. Forget Nature and Science, I'll keep aiming for the Journal of Negative Results. It might save some disappointment.

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