Every scientist's nightmare

[lederhosen]

Owie. (Involves animal testing.)

But there are a lot of people out there who'd just have buried their heads in the sand and hoped nobody would realise they'd made a mistake. I give them credit for doing the honourable thing.

(Back when I was doing my PhD project, for a while there I had an error in my calculations that made some of my data twice what they should be, and for various reasons it wasn't immediately obvious that they were too large. I even presented a graph based on this data at a conference, although most of the attendees were watching the WTC burn rather than my presentation. I was NOT a happy camper when I found the mistake. Very fortunately for me, the data was still in correct proportions, and due to commercial-in-confidence considerations, the presentation version of the graph hadn't actually shown units. So there was nothing to correct except in my own data files that hadn't seen the light of day - a narrow escape.)

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[bunny-hugger.livejournal.com]

Well, that's depressing.