Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

There has recently been considerable discussion of a “replication crisis” in some areas of science. In this book, the authors argue that replication is not a necessary criterion for the validation of a scientific experiment. Five episodes from physics and genetics are used to substantiate this thesis: the Meselson-Stahl experiment on DNA replication, the discoveries of the positron and the omega minus hyperon, Mendel’s plant experiments, and the discovery of parity nonconservation. Two cases in which once wasn’t enough are also discussed, the nondiscovery of parity nonconservation and the search for magnetic monopoles. Reasons why once wasn’t enough are also discussed.

Philosophy and science. --- Nuclear physics. --- Genetics. --- History. --- Physics. --- Philosophy of Science. --- Particle and Nuclear Physics. --- Genetics and Genomics. --- History of Science. --- History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics. --- Natural philosophy --- Philosophy, Natural --- Physical sciences --- Dynamics --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Biology --- Embryology --- Mendel's law --- Adaptation (Biology) --- Breeding --- Chromosomes --- Heredity --- Mutation (Biology) --- Variation (Biology) --- Atomic nuclei --- Atoms, Nuclei of --- Nucleus of the atom --- Physics --- Science and philosophy --- Science --- Replication (Experimental design) --- Experiments --- Experiments. --- Natural science --- Natural sciences --- Science of science --- Sciences --- Experimental design

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

There have been many recent discussions of the 'replication crisis' in psychology and other social sciences. This has been attributed, in part, to the fact that researchers hesitate to submit null results and journals fail to publish such results. In this book Allan Franklin and Ronald Laymon analyze what constitutes a null result and present evidence, covering a 400-year history, that null results play significant roles in physics.

Physics --- Replication (Experimental design) --- SCIENCE / Scientific Instruments. --- Research. --- Research --- History.