My research partner and I have been co-PIs on this Alzheimer's drug trial for eighteen months and our preliminary data looks terrible but we keep finding reasons to extend enrollment and adjust protocols instead of admitting this compound isn't working. We're burning through our grant money and I think we're both too invested in being right to face what the data is telling us.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two scientists are avoiding the hard conversation about cutting losses on a failing study because their professional identities are too wrapped up in being right.
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