History Main / CriticalResearchFailure

*** Ironically, the Colosseum is stuffed full of metal, possibly to reinforce it, and for the reception structures for tourists. To add some more irony, there is a big iron cross (bigger than a man) inside, in memory of the Christians martyrs. It's common knowledge that ancient Romans put it; if blatantly wrong.
**TheCore is either a StealthParody or a case of [=~They Just Didn't Care~=], since they had physicists on staff. Why else would the ship's hull be made of "{{Unobtainium}}"?

*In-story example: The lead in ''The40YearOldVirgin'' successfully maintains his farce until mentioning that breasts feel like bags of sand.
** Which was probably a reference to a common stage practice of making fake breasts by attaching bags of sand to an actor's shoulders, which then hang at chest level. The sag of the sand makes the fake breasts look convincingly real under a costume. If Andy had ever done any theatre in college, this was probably the closest he'd ever come to fondling a breast.

*''TheDayAfterTomorrow'':
**They outran a WAVE OF COLD that shattered glass and avoided freezing to death by closing a door on it and then standing near a wood and paper fire.
***In addition, by some miracle, two small rings of fire on a stove-top somehow was enough to survive the chasing frost despite the fact that the frost was in the room and almost on top of the travelers. They need a lot more heat than that.

*** A large number of computers predating the mid '80s were sold in one piece; monitor, keyboard, & processor all built together in one frame. Others were keyboard & processor in one. The tower / monitor / keyboard 3-part setup is a fairly recent development. So, exactly what kind of computer is it in the movie?

*** Untrue. When was the last time you saw two packs of wolves tactfully engaged in warfare with one-another? [[YourMilageMayVary The answer is never.]]

*This line from a song in ''{{Enchanted}}''. Umm, what?

** Possibly justified, as she's talking about love,and in fairy tales, love is usually as simple as TrueLovesKiss. Plus, this is ''[[{{TheDitz}} Giselle]]'' we're talking about here.
** How much [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean touching]] do you see in any other Disney princess movie? Giselle obviously has no idea what sex is, and it may not even exist in her animated world.

***"Pokè Trainer's Guide to the Galaxy", eh?

** Allegedly Johnson suffers from brain damage as result of complications from Hepatitis C, and/or side effects of experimental medical treatments for the disease. If so, critical research failure might not be the cause of his bizarre notions. But isn't it nice that such a person is in Congress *Insert joke about it being standard here*?

** To explain it a bit, a journalist of an Argentinian channel did a report on Facebook, where teens would exchange alcohol recipes. One of such was "Grog XD". Regular internet users would know that XD is a smiley. Ignoring this however, we have the recipe, which contained ingredients like [[MonkeyIsland kerosene, battery acid and SCUMM]]. Needless to say, it got featured in ''{{Tales of Monkey Island}}''.

** Allegedly Johnson suffers from brain damage as result of complications from Hepatitis C, and/or side effects of experimental medical treatments for the disease. If so, critical research failure might not be the cause of his bizarre notions. But isn't it nice that such a person is in Congress?

** Three minutes on Google would probably have done the job just as well.

See also GretzkyHasTheBall (for depictions of sports that fit this) and CowboyBebopAtHisComputer (for examples of this showing up in the news). DanBrowned is a SuperTrope, where the creator clearly made claims of accuracy, but failed to deliver on them, and hoped no-one would notice. If you have to explain ''why'' something is an error, then it is not a CriticalResearchFailure. To put it bluntly: this trope is DidNotDoTheResearch evident to anyone with even elementary knowledge, or common sense. Example: Around 350 AD, Wulfila translated TheBible into Gothic. If someone claims that he did it around 50 AD this is a case of DidNotDoTheResearch. If, however, someone claims that he did it in 6,000 BC, it is a CriticalResearchFailure.

** In the first movie, the supercomputer Red Queen explains how zombies reanimate, saying that since hair and nails continue to grow after death, there's enough cellular activity in the body to reanimate. Problem is, [[http://www.snopes.com/science/nailgrow.asp hair and nails DON'T keep growing after death.]] This is not only part of the movie's entire rationale for having zombies at all, but is spoken by a supercomputer supposedly housing vast collections of knowledge and data; if that's not a CriticalResearchFailure, we don't know what the hell is.

-->The Hampshire emergency planning office said: "Rather than having to rely on telephones, for instance, where lines are at risk in bad weather, we are encouraging the wider use of fax machines."

* In the "killer gamers" episode of ''CSIMIami'', the bad guys are basing their crimes on the plot of a video game. The only way the team can find out what happens next is to play the game. Anyone who has ever set foot in a video game store has seen shelves full of [[StrategyGuide Official Strategy Guides]] proclaiming "All Secrets Revealed!" on their covers.

*In ''DoubleJeopardy'', Ashley Judd's husband fakes his death and frames her for the murder. After being paroled, Judd sets out to find her husband and murder him for real, but now with legal impunity, since she "can't be tried for the same crime twice" according to the 5th Amendment protection against double jeopardy.

*In ''DoubleJeopardy'', Ashley Judd's husband fakes his death and frames her for the murder. After being paroled, Judd sets out to find her husband and murder him for real, but now with legal impunity, since she "can't be tried for the same crime twice" according to the 5th Amendment protection against double jeopardy.

*In ''The Wheel of Time'', two characters are sitting on an island in the middle of a river. Said river's water level goes down visibly as the characters watch due to evaporation, but there's not a single molecule of water vapor in the air. In fact, there's apparently no source of water to be (magically) turned into rain.

**[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTcVNuNX8yY Are you sure?]]

** To be fair, he ''does'' look like a girl.

** Perhaps they were referring to the PhantomOfTheOpera movie, which ''also'' did not take place in the early 18th century.

****It also says in the first book that Bella is half-albino. You cannot be half albino, and thus is a Critical Research Failure.

* {{Gaia Online}} Made a terrible mistake whilst describing a new item called Lala the Koala Plushie.
"Lala the Koala Plushie pays tribute to the noble koala bear, which is now just returning from hibernation to resume it's voracious consumption of eucalyptus"
Says Gaia.

Well, let's examine that, shall we. For a start, Koalas are not really bears and people should take note that nobody in Australia say 'Koala bear'. Secondly, Australia is a temperate zone in which the average temperature for the seasons does not differ from the other seasons much. Keeping that second point in mind, that would mean that the winters are not exceedingly cold. And so, the total number of native Australian wildlife that Hibernates reaches a total of zero.