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posted on 2025-05-09, 08:56 authored by Matthew PartridgeMatthew Partridge

A humorous cartoon suggesting lab mishaps are due to sentient, rebellious equipment and data, not researcher error.

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2017-02-24

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Lab equipment appears to conspire, changing data and leaking behind scientist's back.

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Text: No matter how badly your experiment goes Just remember That it’s totally not your fault Your equipment is probably conspiring against you And your data almost certainly changed itself Equipment 1: They’re not looking! I’m going to start leaking Equipment 2: I’m changing all the ones in this data to twos!

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