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Re:‘Disruptive’ science has declined by jjk166 on Thursday January 05, 2023 @01:51PM (#34264574)
Preliminary results are results from a previous experiment that already had to be funded. And yeah, you don't want to throw funding at researchers who are only getting weird results because they are bad at conducting research.
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Re:‘Disruptive’ science has declined by dekhn on Thursday January 05, 2023 @02:20PM (#34265041)
Literally every preliminary result I got was from an experiment that was explicitly not funded for the purpose it was requested for. That is, by year 2 of my grant, I was spending my monies on stuff I hadn't proposed, to prepare for the next grant proposal.

I guess part of the reason I exited academia was because I was bad at conducting research :)

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