Comments on: A science journal for failed experiments https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/a-science-journal-for-failed-experiments/ Wed, 02 Dec 2020 16:11:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Ray Barnum https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/a-science-journal-for-failed-experiments/#comment-1096272 Wed, 02 Dec 2020 16:11:14 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=14812#comment-1096272 Just stumbled onto this site, in a search for something that might fulfill a title I thought of decades ago: “Encyclopedia of Experiments That Failed”. I thought at the time that failed experiments could prove almost as valuable a successful ones. Let’s subsequent investigators know what not to do!

Just now mentioned it to a friend, regarding a recent report of using high-dose vitamin D for treating Covid-19 infection (a pre-print out of Brazil). They reported “failure” of effect.
As I explained to my friend, they actually showed how NOT to use vitamin D!

Other centers have reported positive results, but with earlier intervention (the Brazil study reported 10 days SD 3 since onset of disease, and the patients were “severe”). So the study, being reported in “media” as a failure, was really very successful in demonstrating what not to do.
A great example of a “failed” experiment!

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