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Re: Passing keywords to DLM [message #40486 is a reply to message #40374] Tue, 10 August 2004 05:49 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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jargoogle@explore4life.com (JGG) wrote in message news:<4ed7753c.0408091922.7ff5e2b0@posting.google.com>...
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> I've always imagined a use for a journal of failed research. Sure,
> sometimes brilliant people discover the same thing at the same time. Think of the numbers though of all the people who try the same
> unworkable idea and fail silently, leaving later generations to repeat
> the waste of time. Too bad the journal of failed research would
> probably fill every shelf on the planet. It would have to be tightly
> refereed to include only those ideas most often entertained and
> studied with no useful results.

Richard Feynman wrote that a good scientist should always publish the
results of his work, whether or not he finds what he's looking for.
It's a fundamental part of what "integrity" means for a scientist, and
the reason you give is one of the reasons why this is so.
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