Actually, it may not be necessary for journals to publish null results. The important things is that the data be made available. Funding agencies like the NIH a

Actually, it may not be necessary for journals to publish null results. The important things is that the data be made available. Funding agencies like the NIH are making this mandatory. I think the NIH is, unfortunately, taking the wrong approach in implementing its data archives; it places an interest in data harmonization above common sense and data intelligibility, in my opinion. Still, I think its a move in the right direction.