I don't know your field, but the claim that there's no acceptable outlet for negative results isn't always true. There are usually outlets for interesting resu

I don't know your field, but the claim that there's no acceptable outlet for negative results isn't always true. There are usually outlets for interesting results, it's just that negative results tend to be less interesting than positive ones. Negative results that blow up accepted wisdom, though... An example from economics: Meese and Rogoff [1] has (by google scholar) about 3000 citations, which is massive for econ and is one of the key references in Intl Macro. They showed that all of the models in use at the time of publication sucked. [1] Empirical exchange rate models of the seventies: do they fit out of sample? links to the paper here: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=17091735262456791337&hl=en&as_sdt=0,16 http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=170917352624567913...