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This is interesting, but I think there needs to be an option that takes the next step. While this journal is for psychology only I would like to see a broad Jou
by chrisBob 12y ago
This is interesting, but I think there needs to be an option that takes the next step. While this journal is for psychology only I would like to see a broad Journal of Negative Results. This would help limit repeated, failed experiments, and could do as much to help new discoveries as the current publications which are a collection of techniques that happened to work.
Everyone says you should learn from your mistakes, but then they are never shared for others to learn from.
- mherdeg 12y agoYeah, it does seem like in general in science, we only see "we tried to do X and it didn't work" papers AFTER someone has published a paper that says "surprisingly, we tried to do X which shouldn't work and it did!". The example that comes to mind is pluripotent stem cells (see e.g. discussion at http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.0050338 http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjo... ) where publications only really advance knowledge about the "dogma" of a field when someone finds a way to publish results that oppose it.