[Galleus]

I can't really say I agree with this. I work in a research field myself, and I can say from experience that almost all research projects undertaken in science are done with some hypothesis of what is likely to occur prior to the research being undertaken. This is why there are such exacting standards on how data is supposed to be collected, processed, etc. in order to avoid any implication of bias. So long as the results are repeatable and can be demonstrated as such, there's nothing to say the project has failed in any way, whether or not the final conclusions match the initial hypothesis.