what do you think about the need to publish negative results? Not all science is positive data and discovering new pathways, but the many experiments done to disprove hypotheses deserve to be published, right? They can go a long way in preventing time and money waste by other researchers, as well as guide novel projects away from dead ends. Do journals (like eLife) receive such submissions, and how do they deal with them? Should journals support and encourage such publications?
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what do you think about the need to publish negative results? Not all science is positive data and discovering new pathways, but the many experiments done to disprove hypotheses deserve to be published, right? They can go a long way in preventing time and money waste by other researchers, as well as guide novel projects away from dead ends. Do journals (like eLife) receive such submissions, and how do they deal with them? Should journals support and encourage such publications?
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