The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors has done something fairly similar (http://www.icmje.org/urm_main.html http://www.icmje.org/urm_main.html)

The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors has done something fairly similar (http://www.icmje.org/urm_main.html http://www.icmje.org/urm_main.html), and, in the US the government backs it up with a mandatory prepublication database of all ongoing trials: http://clinicaltrials.gov/ http://clinicaltrials.gov/ Also see Ionnidis's paper on why most published research is wrong: http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10%2E1371%2Fjournal%2Epmed%2E0020124 http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-docum...