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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Nishida, Akira, ニシダ, アキラ, 西田, 晃
The Michelson-Morley experiment failed to detect evidence for the wind of luminiferous aether. However, the fact that light propagates without affecting aether wind on the rotating earth means that the medium is also rotating with us. For…
Ling, Siew-Eng, Liew, Venus Khim-Sen, Lau, Sie-Hoe
This study shows that augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) test failed to detect covariance nonstationary series. Supportive of Ahamada (2004), this study finds that the cumulative sums of squares procedure in Inclán and Tiao (1994) is useful to…
Junpei Wang (776880), Jian Tu (490588), Jichun Yang (458427) et al. · 2015
“Not detected” means microarrays failed to detect the significant signals of LncRNAs in mouse livers. Detailed information of dysregulated plasma LncRNAs was summarized in S2 and S3 Tables. The detailed information of liver LncRNAs had…
Nishida, Akira, ニシダ, アキラ, 西田, 晃
The Michelson-Morley experiment failed to detect evidence for the wind of luminiferous aether. However, the fact that light propagates without affecting aether wind on the rotating earth means that the medium is also rotating with us. For…
Ling, Siew-Eng, Liew, Venus Khim-Sen, Lau, Sie-Hoe · 2005
This study shows that augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) test failed to detect covariance nonstationary series. Supportive of Ahamada (2004), this study finds that the cumulative sums of squares procedure in Inclán and Tiao (1994) is useful to…
Ling, Siew-Eng, Venus, Khim-Sen Liew, Lau, Sie-Hoe · 2005
This study shows that augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) test failed to detect covariance nonstationary series. Supportive of Ahamada (2004), this study finds that the cumulative sums of squares procedure in Inclán and Tiao (1994) is useful to…
Bär, Diego, Julian Cooper, Alan Tyndall et al. · 2009
We report a patient who presented with inflammatory back pain due to multisegmental spondylitis. Following a vertebral biopsy which failed to detect an infectious organism, the patient was treated with etanercept, a tumor necrosis factor…
I. G. Rusakov, R. V. Ulianov, E. V. Filonenko et al. · 2015
The main challenge of treating non-muscle invasive bladder cancer is multifocal tumors. Current methods of diagnosis are failed to detect all superficial flat tumor lesions in bladder mucosa. The use of fluorescence imaging with…
Piralla A., BALDANTI, FAUSTO, MINOLI, LORENZO et al. · 2012
XMRV and polytropic MLV-related virus have been controversially associated with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). Subsequent reports failed to detect XMRV and MLV-related virus in CFS patients, and the previous results have been interpreted…
N. Stocchetti · 2014
Aggressive therapy after traumatic brain injury, for instance surgical decompression of the skull, is effective in reducing intracranial pressure. However in a randomized trial it has failed to improve outcome. Careful identification of…
Dr. Abu Elias Sarker, Dr. Mohammad Habibur Rahman · 2014
In spite of different approaches being experimented over the past six decades, poverty alleviation programs in the developing world have largely failed to improve poverty situation. Of all the factors responsible for the growing trend of…
Luisa Seguella (2806498), Stefano Gigli (2806501), Luca Steardo (214519) et al. · 2018
PEA failed to improve diarrhea course in PPARα−/− mice. HIV-1 Tat (130 ng/Kg)-induced diarrhea in PPARα−/− mice, increasing (a) daily defecation frequency, (b) average daily number of wet spots, and (c) fluid accumulation within 7 days…
John H. Strickler · 2018
Abstract Summary: Anti-EGFR therapies have failed to improve survival for unselected patients with metastatic gastroesophageal cancer, but in a subset of patients, EGFR amplification may predict treatment benefit. Maron and colleagues…
· 2022 · The Brown University Psychopharmacology Update
The antimuscarinic agent scopolamine did not demonstrate antidepressant effects in a randomized trial that used an active placebo comparator and involved 40 patients with major depressive disorder. Researchers stopped the trial for…
Julianna Rugor (548251), Lukasz Przybyl (548252), Ralf Dechend (252651) et al. · 2014
Masson trichrome staining of kidney sections (A) showed increased matrix deposition in vehicle-treated dTGR. Relaxin did not reduce matrix formation in the kidney (representative images). The upper panel shows a higher magnification. (B)…
Sharafuddin, Melhem, Katz, Daniel, Reddy, Geeta et al. · 2005
Monthly access flow monitoring with increased prophylactic angioplasty did not improve fistula patency.BackgroundRegular access monitoring is recommended to detect and treat access stenosis in order to prevent access thrombosis and…
Anna Kramvis (304621), Neil A. Martinson (198606), Trevor G. Bell (304619) et al. · 2013
“n” indicates the number of participants in each group. ALT and CD4 cell counts for each group are indicated in the table below the plot as “Median (Interquartile Range)”. Viral loads and CD4 cell counts did not differ significantly…
Oates, David, David Oates · 1976
The concentration of lead in fish muscle tissue from lakes where boating is heavy and where it is prohibited was measured. The lead levels ranged from less than 0.05 to 1.35 ppm but did not differ significantly between those in the…
Thomas Christian (2546665), Barbara Kabon (652817), David Emler (14540201) et al. · 2023
BackgroundIn relatively healthy middle-aged patients, recent studies have shown that supplemental oxygen did not significantly increase one-year mortality after noncardiac surgery. If supplemental oxygen influences long-term mortality,…
Nishida, Akira, 西田, 晃 · 2013
The Michelson-Morley experiment failed to detect evidence for the wind of luminiferous aether. However, the fact that light propagates without affecting aether wind on the rotating earth means that the medium is also rotating with us. For…
Ramage, Thomas R. · 2002
A quick look at the “No Significant Difference Phenomenon” website might leave the casual observer to the conclusion that an overwhelming amount of data exists to support the notion that technologically-mediated instruction and/or…
Alison Knopf · 2023 · Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly
State laws that allow medical cannabis to be prescribed and dispensed did not result in the reduced treatment of chronic noncancer pain, researchers have found. In the study, “Effects of U.S. State Medical Cannabis Laws on Treatment of…
George Ampat, Emma Tixerant · 2019 · BMJ Case Reports
A 52-year-old woman sustained a direct soft tissue injury to the right knee following a fall onto the right knee. X-rays did not identify any bony injury. Physiotherapy decreased pain but instability persisted. MRI scans identified early…
Shrikhande, Milind, Fendler, Richard · 2012
Numerous studies show there is no significant difference between student performance in online versus traditional courses. Unfortunately, these studies are unable to identify how a given student would have performed in the other format.…
Camilla Fabbri, Timothy Powell-Jackson, Katherine Rodrigues et al. · 2023 · PLOS Global Public Health
EmpaTeach was the first intervention to address teacher violence to be tested in a humanitarian setting and the first to focus on reducing impulsive use of violence, but a cluster randomised trial found no evidence that the intervention…
Ibrahim Bashan, Turhan Toros · 2018 · Journal of Human Sciences
Aim: In this research it was aimed if there is a difference between mastery-performance climate and task-ego orientation variables of basketball players who did and did not experience a sports injury.Methods: This study group consists of…
· 2021 · The Brown University Psychopharmacology Update
A new study that confirmed the effect of topiramate in reducing heavy‐drinking days in patients with alcohol use disorder (AUD) did not find a moderating effect of the rs2832407 genotype on study outcomes. The latter finding contradicted…
Bob de Ruiter · 2023 · arXiv
In many fields of experimental science, papers that failed to replicate continue to be cited as a result of the poor discoverability of replication studies. As a first step to creating a system that automatically finds replication studies for a given paper, 334 replication studies and 344 replicated studies were collected. Replication studies could be identified in the dataset based on text content at a higher rate than chance (AUROC = 0.886). Additionally, successful replication studies could be distinguished from failed replication studies at a higher rate than chance (AUROC = 0.664).
Amritanshu Pandey, Marko Jereminov, Gabriela Hug et al. · 2017 · arXiv
Recent advances in power system simulation have included the use of complex rectangular current and voltage (I-V) variables for solving the power flow and three-phase power flow problems. This formulation has demonstrated superior convergence properties over conventional polar coordinate based formulations for three-phase power flow, but has failed to replicate the same advantages for power flow in general due to convergence issues with systems containing PV buses. In this paper, we demonstrate how circuit simulation techniques can provide robust convergence for any complex I-V formulation tha
James Kirby, Ioana Krehan, Michele Gubian · 2026 · arXiv
This study examines the extent to which the wav2vec2.0 architecture exhibits evidence of compensation for phonological context. We conducted a pseudo-replication of a perceptional compensation experiment on Mandarin Chinese tones, and compared the embedding similarities and probing classifier outputs between a purely self-supervised pre-trained model and a model fine-tuned for Mandarin ASR. No evidence of compensation was found in the embedding similarities of the purely pre-trained model. Probing classifiers showed some evidence of compensation in addition to the expected layer-wise improveme