justpassingby Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 I'm a student and i remember my chemistry teacher telling me about and experiment that a scientist did wrong. Then other scientists tried to imitate it and got the right results but tried to change it to the scientist's result and were stumped about why they couldn't imitate the data. What was the name of that experiment again, anyone know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insane_alien Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 impossible to say as there have likely been many many cases of this, some will have been accidental others will have been fraud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justpassingby Posted May 16, 2010 Author Share Posted May 16, 2010 Oh, can you give me one that was accidentally done wrong? I should really have posted this on the homework forums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Cuthber Posted May 17, 2010 Share Posted May 17, 2010 Millikan's oil drop experiment? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_drop_experiment#Millikan.27s_experiment_and_cargo_cult_science Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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