It is a bizarre finding and I make no attempt to explain it, only to point out the dangers of rushing to see desired results in a series of data, or a simple narrative in a complicated picture.
In a bizarre finding, sham surgery of the knee, in which patients got sedation and an incision but no actual procedure, relieved the pain of osteoarthritis better than actual arthroscopy--and produced an equal improvement in joint function, scientists reported in 2002.
Here, there are really impressive and bizarre clinical findings.
To McQueen, the notion sounds as bizarre as finding slavery funny.
As a dramatic device, though, it was as bizarre as finding a dollop of chocolate pudding on your Beef Wellington.
The "science of happiness", he starts by pointing out, is full of bizarre and contradictory findings.
Though our brains probably require that we make rather simple, broad groupings to deal with reality, these can lead to bizarre and offensive findings.
The wrens that survived, researchers discovered, had sometimes done so by finding bizarre hiding places: burrowing into haystacks, or squeezing into rat holes.
What's uniquely fascinating about Coley, however, is his bizarre obsession with finding burl in the woods: the swirly cancerous growth on trees that can be used in guitars and gun handles.
Scientists are still finding bizarre new deep sea creatures like these crabs every year.
Every such exploration yields unimagined life forms and provides us astronomers a greater hope that life will be found on the bizarre exoplanets we are finding.
