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RE: What Biologists do all Day - Structural Biology
Well, I'm not an impatient person, but sometimes I can't just be relaxed or composed to do some certain monotonous things. But this is far from that as the results are never guaranteed. That makes each new process an adventure, and I do love one.
Even worse, our professor showed us a publication where they had to say that their structure was wrong - and several others had used their findings and lost their funding because they weren't able to produce results.
Ouch! That has got to sting.
Don't the publications undergo peer review? That is frustrating and time-wasting venture for those that lost their funding as a result of the publication.
Well, peer-review doesn't necessarily spot everything. Their R values were actually pretty good, it was really bad luck.
Ok. That was an unfortunate turn of event.
Peer review just means they make sure everything checks out at a somewhat superficial level. That is why Reproducibility is the gold standard of evidence.