ambulance-chasing
n.— «As a result, theorists haven’t been able to resist interpreting these statistically suspect results. It’s an activity that Neil Turok of Princeton University (himself a theorist) describes as “ambulance chasing—running after these experiments hoping one of them will disprove some theory.”» —“Microwave mappers sweat details” by Gary Taubes Sciece Mar. 25, 1994. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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