> Hell, go watch Youtube Chemists who have Phds fail to reproduce old papers. Were those papers fraudulent? No, science is just difficult and failure prone.
Agreed. Lab technique is a thing. There is a reason for the dark joke that in Physics, theorists are washed up by age 30, but experimentalists aren't even competent until age 40.
Agreed. Lab technique is a thing. There is a reason for the dark joke that in Physics, theorists are washed up by age 30, but experimentalists aren't even competent until age 40.