Run a control that can embarrass you, and set it up before the data exist
A passage from a novel, chosen for the method it shows. The data in the story are invented, so what travels is the move and not the result. What it does not establish is set out below.
From Bram's log, the night the housing is built (Chapter 10):
Second identical unit stays on the wet-lab bench, logging on the same clock, as a control for the instrument itself.
The result, two chapters later (Chapter 19):
The control unit, logging on the bench through the same two days, showed nothing like it — only the ordinary thermal wander of a lab. Whatever the trace was, the housing hadn't made it.
From Current Drift: Chapter Ten — Bram, Chapter Nineteen — Bram.