Why science and scientists must learn to celebrate their failures

Failure is part and parcel of research but many scientists consider discussing it in a scientific forum to be taboo.

Laboratories are littered with unfinished experiments and inconclusive facts and theories that failed to stand the test of study. However, when science is being communicated — whether to funding bodies, professional journals or audiences — it comes across as a smooth story of success. Just narratives are counter-effective.