Dear Dr Mahboob Imtiyaz,

Perfectly right. When we learn to walk, we succeed after a one-year period of regularly falls.

And thus, in Sciences and publications, the problem is that often only positive results are well considered to be published; that we could consider in statistic as a great bias ; and on the reality of responses we give to sientific questions.

Regards

Didier JAMBOU

Hello

I had been thinking, there should probably be such a place where you can let errors in experiments be known, that errors exists and there are some ways in which errors occur. People before starting the experiments if get to know the various types of possible errors, will work to avoid it. Therefore, as mentioned above by Mr. Didier Jambou child learns to walk after periods of regular falls. There are lots of places for error in science and so far the system is, if you step on any error, you try to find the right way and walk along......with the errors being unpublished, chances are there that many people stumble across same and yet owing to lack of publishing habit, no person is aware of it..

A nice initiative, yeah allowing small failures to complete fiasco will be a nice work. Great job....I have indeed been thinking of something as such since a long time......may be I could contribute for some small failures that occurred in course of my experiment....let me know more about the publishing requirements.

Regards'Sanjaya

If you are one of the core team members, I suggest you that, do make an option for conversation in small failed experiments so that people reading it, can also find a way to do it correctly in the same place. How difficult would that approach be?

Also, I feel that the science that deals with understanding the errors is known as Errology...not as Errorology. What do you say?

Regards

Sanjaya

nice post

This is a nice innovation.Good luck

Hi there,

there are some other initiatives to get this kind of thinking pormoted:

"Since 2002, the Journal of Negative Results in Biomedicine has offered a peer-reviewed home to results that go negative or against the grain. Earlier this year, the journal Nature started Nature Precedings, a Web-based forum for prepublication research and unpublished manuscripts in biomedicine, chemistry, and the earth sciences. At Drexel University, chemist Jean-Claude Bradley practices "open notebook" science — chronicling his lab's work and sharing data via blog and wiki. And PLoS is planning an open repository for research and data that is other wise abandoned."

[09.25.07 from: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/15-10/st_essay]

Cheers, Hans-Joachim

an interesting topic.

It will be interesting to be able to share all the hiccoughs that one encounters dring experiment. It will definitely be good to know that someone else somewhere may have made the same one and get help from your solution.

besides its human to make mistakes