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  1. Anonymous says:

    Interesting…

  2. Mouse says:

    Scientific experiments have been known to cause cancer in laboratory mice.

  3. Brombaq says:

    Scientists never disapoint me

  4. Breakfast Club says:

    Maybe that’s why they’re dying.

  5. We are Anonymous says:

    What bird-brain thought of this idea?

  6. Leif Erikson says:

    maybe its AIDS

  7. Willian says:

    Oh, I know why… no… nevermind.

  8. yourmom says:

    Not a fail, they could be dissecting the ducks to see if they ate something bad.

    • H says:

      I agree with you.
      Also, when animals die of mysterious causes and you suspect different problems could be the cause (like chemicals, diseases, etc.) then the best thing to do is to expose a few animals to the suspected causes and see which one leaves the same evidence on the dead bodies. It seems counter-productive at first, but you may save many more animals in the long run (and perhaps discover a serious ecological problem, such as a leak of toxic chemicals).

      Just goes to show many people do not understand how science works.

      • Frappo says:

        Maybe the research fail was, in fact, perpetrated by the article’s writer, who, obviously didn’t try to find out why the scientists were killing the birds to begin with.

        So yeah, Turned it back into a fail again. :P

    • Belsito says:

      If they ate something bad, they’d be dead like the others. Why not cut up DEAD ducks to see why they died? If one member of a family dies suddenly, they don’t kill another member to see why the first one died, do they? They do the OBVIOUS thing and post mortem the DEAD one.

      • satsumo says:

        Imagine they applied this technique to humans. Somebody dies so they kill a bunch of other people to find out why ‘because it might save more in the long run’.

  9. RadicalX says:

    Sounds like something Johnny Cash would sing about…

  10. BoKu says:

    Research win, headline fail.

  11. Cloral says:

    Duck City, Montana

  12. Rafael says:

    lol, it’s supposed to be a win, if the stupid journalist didn’t blow it…

  13. O noes! Did they dissect?

  14. Liam says:

    oh for god’s sake, it WOULD be tacoma. way to go, guys. hahaha.

  15. asdf says:

    Wow. Whoever wrote this contradicted themselves in the first line…

  16. Shade Tail says:

    Whoever thought this was a research fail knows nothing about scientific research. Fail fail!

  17. bob says:

    what a quack…

  18. Daniel says:

    I do know up at the university here that one time they started finding dead fishes at a pond. The research department started catching live fish and killing them to determine the cause of death.

    So I guess this newspaper article just worded it wrong. Perhaps they should have said, “Autopsy.”

    • Carl T says:

      Yup, makes perfect sense to me. By the time you’ve found the ones who’ve died in the wild (be they ducks or fish), they’ll likely be in a pretty bad state. Heck, they could have all sorts of secondary infections by the time they die, so looking for ones that are infected but not yhet dying makes good sense. As for killing them, well, that _is_ the easiest way to have a good look at their insides, and considered acceptable with fish and fowl (and notably less so with humans).

  19. whack n fap says:

    19/5/13 Expect Us

  20. Bettypatch says:

    … never been so proud to be from the Northwest… -_-

  21. Gobind Singh says:

    That looks like one OLD copy of The Everett Herald. The font of the section header and the newspaper name were common circa 1994….

  22. coyote INFJ says:

    Headline:

    SCIENTISTS ARRESTED BY DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE FOR HUNTING DUCKS OUT OF SEASON

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    • TickTockTickTock says:

      spamming of fail, fail

    • satsumo says:

      Yeah, that was extremely funny. Because to make something extremely funny you just put the words extremely funny at the start of its title. It dosen’t have to be particularly funny at all, and this isn’t.

      I guess you didn’t think it would pass the voting system then?

  24. Umbers says:

    The Southeast:

    Scientists eat crackers to see why crackers are being eaten

    The Northeast:

    Scientists run water to see if water runs

    The Southwest:

    Scientists throw clocks to see time fly

    The Northsouthnorthnorth:

    Scientists shave bunnies to examine hare samples

    The Southupsouthspinaround:

    Scientists splice Granny Smiths and flying critters to create apple fritters

    The Spinmerightroundbabyrightroundlikearecordbabyright:

    Scientists stop smoking the good stuff long enough to get something done

    The Heeltoedoeseydoecomeonbabyletsgobootscoot:

    Scientists smoke the good stuff again

    The Heeltoedoeseydoecomeonbabyletsgobootscoot Evening Edition:

    Lab Burns Down. Scientists plan to study why after munchies

    • satsumo says:

      My favourite was when Kellogs paid some scientists to reseach why Cornflakes go soggy. Answer: Because they absorb the milk. That’s one giant leap for mankind.

  25. Boh says:

    use fire!

  26. deedee13 says:

    The Northwest:
    Scientists discovered that if a bullet is inserted to someones head using a gun, the person stops responding to further questions and drops dead!

  27. MattH says:

    These scientists wouldn’t happen to be from the ICR, would they?

  28. Allison says:

    I think the writer knew what he was saying, which makes it (in my book) a sarcasm win.

  29. Ari Gold says:

    that’s a great idea

  30. pastamasta says:

    Which came first, this is a chicken and egg problem… or rather duck and egghead.

  31. Marrii says:

    OH, OH, OH, OH! I now!!!!!!!!!!!!

    He killed them..

    fail

  32. G. James says:

    Milk off a duck’s back
    Oil off a duck’s back
    Acid off a duck’s back

  33. duran says:

    they were dying of curiosity ^_^

  34. Seanfailed9445 says:

    Because dumbasses are shooting them….


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