Scientists overlook inconvenient results, writes Mr. Brooks, a British science writer who holds a doctorate in quantum physics and writes a weekly column for The New Statesman.
Instead, it could file the inconvenient results away and run another trial, and if necessary another, until, just by chance, the drug seems to work – and then publish those positive results.
Data omission i.e., all the data in the analyses are not included (deleting patients with "inconvenient" results) 8.
If this is not done, there is growing risk that the standard of the future will not be Science, but Re-Science, which focuses, not on new research results that build humanity's knowledge base, but on disputes among interest groups for (i) retraction of papers that report inconvenient results, and (ii) republishing the new Re-Science: Re-publish or Perish. .
Although the symptoms even from birth are inconvenient, our results suggest that during childhood and adolescence there is relatively little impact upon normal, healthy functioning, the standard measures of the SF-36 showing little deviation from normality.
Specialist software was expensive and different versions used between the clinical effectiveness group and the geography department were inconvenient and resulted in time spent converting files and reducing lines of data, with older software unable to hold as much data.
Very inconvenient and one result is people go back to their cars".
"This additional time, while inconvenient, is a result of a thorough process, overseen by a court appointed monitor and a respected jurist.
Little wonder that one in three researchers knows of a colleague who has pepped up a paper by, say, excluding inconvenient data from results "based on a gut feeling".
