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thundara  ·  3521 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why null results rarely see the light of day

Here's a question for you and b_b, if a journal of negative results were published, what would be its format? Something like ClinicalTrials.gov, where all experiments are registered beforehand, and it is merely raw data that is collected? Or a more involved effort, similar to traditional journal publishing, where authors submit a full set of methods, results, and discussion?

Do you publish ever negative gel? The last negative gel when a experiment failed to work after much poking and prodding?

Edit: Herp, didn't read the entire thread, I would still be dissatisfied with an abstract-only feed. "My grad student tried this as their first project for a month and failed to produce results" doesn't carry quite the same weight as "Here are the negative results that show that X and Y do not interact and can thus be eliminated from the list of candidate disease pathways"