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"Would anyone really care to subscribe to, let alone publish in, the American Journal of Discarded Hypotheses, the Annals of Failed Experiments, or PLOS Dumpste
by Fomite 4y ago
"Would anyone really care to subscribe to, let alone publish in, the American Journal of Discarded Hypotheses, the Annals of Failed Experiments, or PLOS Dumpster?"
I have often half-joked about the Journal of Cautionary Tales, and would genuinely find "This particular study went sideways, and here's why..." quite valuable. And also, allowing researchers to still get "credit" for contributing to the knowledge of the doing of science.
- fxtentacle 4y agoYes, but it needs a much more catchy name. Many people subscribe to "weekly videos of random stuff exploding" on YouTube.
- vkou 4y ago> "This particular study went sideways, and here's why..." You often can't tell if it went sideways because your hypothesis was shite, or your experiment was. And when you can guess that your experiment was, you often don't know why.
- jononor 4y agoSure, but that is a great reason to publish it. It allows other in the community to pick up on where things left off. Maybe someone else has the missing pieces to the puzzle.
- Fomite 4y agoBut you often can. All journals are selective. This would select for "We know why, and there's practical knowledge to be gained from the why."
- samatman 4y agoWe've talked about founding the Journal of the Null Hypothesis, which publishes well-designed experiments which reveal a particular hypothesis to be wrong or insignificant.
- h2odragon 4y agoThere's always RISKS digest: https://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/ https://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/