Another reason that negative research will garner little support is the lack of citations such papers are heir to. If your paper can't appear in a major journa

Another reason that negative research will garner little support is the lack of citations such papers are heir to. If your paper can't appear in a major journal, then it needs to show that it attracted mind share via a large number of subsequent citations. But because confirmatory research is generally seen as a dead end, especially when it's negative, it's unlikely to receive much attention in subsequent research. All the more reason not to rain on someone else's parade.