How often does it happen that you hear a story about a great result, that turns out to be irreproducible only a year later?  Well, pretty often.  But how often do you hear that the reason for the irreproducibility was in fact, discovered, and the 'culprit' cleared of any wrongdoing?  About once a decade is my guess.  I heard inspirational stories like this during my undergrad actually.  Here is another one for you, in a bit more technical detail than the blurb in CEN News.

http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/sample.cgi/orgnd7/2007/26/i04/pdf/om061009y.pdf

While driving over to eat sushi for lunch, me and Jason Nichols got into a discussion of a dehydrogenation paper.  The discussion gnawed away at my will to write an entry until I made a thorough investigation of the matter, for three weeks.  But now, finally, I'm back.

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A chemistry grad student's take on this very important matter (well, probably not that important, but pretty interesting).

A music video set to Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love".