A searchable index of real negative results, null findings, and replication failures from the published literature — so you can learn what didn't work before repeating it.
WASTE indexes published research — it does not host or republish full papers. Each entry is a metadata record (title, authors, DOI) compiled from open scholarly databases, with the abstract shown in full only where the paper is openly licensed (e.g. Creative Commons); otherwise a short excerpt is shown for reference under fair use. WASTE classifies each work by failure type; classifications are automated and approximate.
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David Marsh · 2023 · The Economists’ Voice
Abstract The autumn 2022 economic upheavals that brought down British Prime Minister Liz Truss’s government represented an ultimate extension of a high-risk exercise in British exceptionalism: the June 2016 referendum decision to leave the…
Quoc C. Vuong, Mark Laing, Anjana Prabhu et al. · 2019 · Scientific Reports
Abstract The nature of interactions between the senses is a topic of intense interest in neuroscience, but an unresolved question is how sensory information from hearing and vision are combined when the two senses interact. A problem for…
Joshua Onasanya, Renée A Beach · 2021 · SAGE Open Medical Case Reports
Tumor necrosis factor-α antagonists have become a therapeutic mainstay for various inflammatory diseases including Hidradenitis Suppurativa. Despite their clinical efficacy, these medications have been associated with the rare development…
Juan Botella, Manuel Suero, Juan I. Durán et al. · 2021 · Anales de Psicología
La etiqueta p-hacking (pH) se refiere a un conjunto de prácticas oportunistas destinadas a hacer que sean significativos algunos valores p que deberían ser no significativos. Algunos han argumentado que debemos prevenir y luchar contra el…
Ashraf Wahba, Khaled Abdelaal, Ayman Yehia et al. · 2022 · Medicina
Background and Objectives: Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a sleep-related respiratory disorder that affects between 5% and 20% of the population. In obstructive sleep apnea, lingual tonsillar hypertrophy (LTH) has been suggested as a…
Rahul Sampath, Nathan W. Cummins, Andrew D. Badley · 2016 · Journal of Cell Death
HIV cure is now the focus of intense research after Timothy Ray Brown (the Berlin patient) set the precedent of being the first and only person cured. A major barrier to achieving this goal on a meaningful scale is an elimination of the…
Helene Hill, Joel Pitt · 2014 · Publications
Repeated failures to replicate reported experimental results could indicate scientific misconduct or simply result from unintended error. Experiments performed by one individual involving tritiated thymidine, published in two papers in…
Ke Li, Hengbing Guo, Fenglong Sun et al. · 2024 · Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery
Purpose This study aims to compare the mid-term radiographic, clinical results and survivorship between distal tibial tuberosity high tibial osteotomy (DTT-HTO) and conventional biplanar medial open-wedge high tibial osteotomy (cOW-HTO).…
Rory D. Cottrell, Tinghong Zhou, John A. Tarduno · 2024 · Scientific Data
Abstract The absence or presence of a lunar paleomagnetosphere is important because it bears directly on the volatile content of the regolith and exploration targets for Artemis and other missions to the Moon. Recent paleointensity study…
Victor Jayeola, C Parsons, L Gorski et al. · 2019 · FEMS Microbiology Letters
ABSTRACT Several outbreaks of listeriosis have implicated fresh produce but genetic factors required for growth of Listeria monocytogenes on produce remain poorly characterized. Based on the fact that β-lactam antibiotics only kill…
Rif Miles Olsen · 2022 · Minerals
Between 2004 and 2018, NASA’s rover Opportunity found huge numbers of small, hematite-rich spherules (commonly called blueberries) on the Meridiani Planum of Mars. The standard oxide composition distributions of blueberries have remained…
Ronnie LaMastro, Noel Vera-Gonzalez, Kayla Campbell et al. · 2021 · Access Microbiology
Candida albicans infections can be challenging to treat, as current antifungal drugs exhibit poor water solubility and host toxicity. To overcome these issues, new methods of drug delivery are needed. Liposomes have been shown to be an…
Iván Sánchez-Iglesias, Celia Martín-Aguilar · 2023 · Journal of Clinical Medicine
Clinical trials are the backbone of medical scientific research. However, this experimental strategy has some drawbacks. We focused on two issues: (a) The internal validity ensured by clinical trial procedures does not necessarily allow…
Anna Ness, Ali Zarei‐Baygi, Dave Macnevin · 2023 · Opflow
Available, effective methods of virus detection adequately address the risks in treating water for potable reuse.
Nathan Cofnas · 2022 · Academic Questions
Seven years ago, under the leadership of Jonathan Haidt, Heterodox Academy set out to organize a meaningful resistance to the reigning social justice orthodoxy on campus. “Seven years later,” writes Nathan Cofnas, “you can count HxA’s…
Olesia Lebid, Oleksandr Veits · 2020 · Banks and Bank Systems
The paper focuses on the theoretical justification and theoretical foundations of using statistical criteria for identifying money laundering risk as a tool to prevent and counteract the legalization of bank clients’ proceeds. The…
Scott D. King · 2022 · Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets
Abstract While volcanic landforms attest to the numerous and varied volcanic processes on Venus, estimates of the frequency of volcanic eruptions are lacking. Constraints from volcanic resurfacing volumes can be equally satisfied by…
Caetano Souto-Maior · 2025 · PeerJ
Reports of crises of reproducibility have abounded in the scientific and popular press, and are often attributed to questionable research practices, lack of rigor in protocols, or fraud. On the other hand, it is a known fact that—just like…
Sangeeta Saha, Binod Chandra Tripathy · 2022 · Journal of Uncertain Systems
The main aim of this paper is to introduce several forms of statistical convergence of difference sequences of complex uncertain variables: [Formula: see text]-statistically convergence almost surely, [Formula: see text]-statistically…
Malik E. Juweid, Dana Alselaibi, Hiba Abandeh et al. · 2023 · Medicine
Trabecular bone score (TBS) assesses trabecular microarchitecture at the lumbar spine and was shown to improve fracture risk prediction compared to bone mineral density (BMD) alone. We investigated whether lumbar degenerative changes (DC)…
Malene Kyrkjebø Vinnes, Inger Marie Aalberg Haugen, Ola Diserud et al. · 2022 · Ecological Entomology
Abstract Linden trees ( Tilia spp . ) have for a long time been associated with bumblebee ( Bombus spp . ) mortality in Europe and North America. Several explanations have been suggested for this phenomenon. This study aimed to explore to…
Stefano Mammola, Diego Fontaneto, Andrea Santangeli et al. · 2026 · Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Abstract We’ve all been there: 11.47, swamped by a long stretch of dense scientific talks at a conference. Six slides into a hyper-technical presentation, the speaker suddenly cracks a joke. The room erupts. Shoulders relax. Minds…
Raphael Max, Matthias Uhl · 2023 · PLOS ONE
Moral luck refers to whether an actor is morally praised or blamed for an action whose outcome they could not influence. In two studies, we investigated the behavioral importance of this phenomenon in the realm of investments, which has…
Rafael R. Maes, Geert Potters, Erik Fransen et al. · 2023 · Sustainability
Air quality currently poses a major risk for human health. Currently, diesel is widely used as fuel and is a significant source of nitrogen oxides (NOx) and particulate matter (PM), both hazardous to human health. A good alternative for…
Ralph Adolphs, Daniel Andler · 2018 · Emotion Review
Our approach to emotion emphasized three key ingredients. (a) We do not yet have a mature science of emotion, or even a consensus view—in this respect we are more hesitant than Sander, Grandjean, and Scherer (henceforth “SGS”) or Luiz…
T. M. Esman, J. R. Espley, J. R. Gruesbeck et al. · 2023 · Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
Schumann resonances are electromagnetic resonances generally associated with lightning. If they exist on Mars, Schumann resonances are expected to resonate within the ionospheric cavity at a fundamental frequency of 7–14 Hz. We conducted a…
Luciano Rodrigo Lopes, João Henrique Campos, Alison Felipe Alencar Chaves · 2022 · Journal of Evidence-Based Healthcare
In 2002, a severe acute respiratory (SARS) epidemic, caused by a coronavirus (SARS-CoV), affected a significant number of countries and was interrupted after one year, approximately. Currently, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused…
Ferhat Karaman, Jill Lany, Jessica F. Hay · 2024 · Cognitive Science
Abstract Infants are sensitive to statistics in spoken language that aid word‐form segmentation and immediate mapping to referents. However, it is not clear whether this sensitivity influences the formation and retention of word‐referent…
Spartaco Gippoliti · 2016 · Mammalia
Abstract It has recently been claimed by Masseti that a wild goat survived on Montecristo Island until the first half of the 20th century and that subsequent selection procedures produced a goat that did not resemble any true wild goat. In…
Ekaete Efretuei · 2025 · FINANCIAL REPORTING
Purpose: I examine whether sales manipulation in failed firms that adopted the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) differ from that of failed firms that did not. This inquiry is motivated by a paucity of research on the…