From Reuters:
China is drafting a law which will allow scientists to report failures with experiments freely without losing face or affecting future funding, state media said on Tuesday.
Supporters of a change in official attitudes cited the case of Thomas Edison , inventor of the electric lightbulb, saying he failed more than 1,000 times before finding the right filament, Xinhua news agency said. State media said this month 13 academics had been blacklisted for falsifying scientific data, fabricating applications and plagiarism as the government tries to foster innovation in a fraud-ridden climate. [Full Text]
