You are telling me this unbelievable result with suspiciously high success rate with the ants hasn’t been reproduced in 10 years? This experiment shouldn’t even be this hard? If you are a bright high schooler or undergrad with a microscope, I am happy to pay you $100 if you end up reproducing this.
There’s further discussion here including the comment section. No one found a smoking gun, but one of the two authors was also lead author on this other paper that is obvious BS.
Okay, I’m considering doing this. One thing I definitely won’t do, however, is maintain an entire colony in the ‘lab’ instead of just doing some ant-napping. I assume that that’s fine?
Feel free to cut any other corners where you see fit. Posting video of the ants during the experiment (just with some phone-camera), seems valuable though.
You are telling me this unbelievable result with suspiciously high success rate with the ants hasn’t been reproduced in 10 years? This experiment shouldn’t even be this hard? If you are a bright high schooler or undergrad with a microscope, I am happy to pay you $100 if you end up reproducing this.
There’s further discussion here including the comment section. No one found a smoking gun, but one of the two authors was also lead author on this other paper that is obvious BS.
Okay, I’m considering doing this. One thing I definitely won’t do, however, is maintain an entire colony in the ‘lab’ instead of just doing some ant-napping. I assume that that’s fine?
Yes, that is fine! :)
Feel free to cut any other corners where you see fit. Posting video of the ants during the experiment (just with some phone-camera), seems valuable though.
It has been 2 months! Are there any results? I strongly support this initiative :)
I suspect XelaP will post them here in the comments if and when he does. Also let’s increase the bounty to 500USD.