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When your multi-year research project fails clinical trials

I have been working on this drug compound for three years and the Phase II trial results came back showing no significant efficacy and I cannot tell if I should feel like a failure or if this is just how science works.

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Years of your work led nowhere, and you can't tell if you failed or if that's just how it goes.

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