This is a really fascinating, not to say scary, account of how "hard" science actually gets done in the laboratory including the observation that about half of the results conflict with the theoretical expectations and that most such anomalies are ignored. Doesn't sound very scientific, does it?
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/12/fail_accept_defeat/all/1
h/t "Robin Hanson: Overcoming bias"
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