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...move that could be a boon for biomedical scientists everywhere, a Harvard Medical School professor has started the “Journal of Negative Results in Biomedicine” (JNRBM) which is dedicated to publishing the results that could save scientists from doing years of work just to get the same negative result that others have already found. In an introductory editorial, Hersey Professor of Cell Biology Bjorn R. Olsen, who edits the journal, and Visiting Research Fellow in Pediatrics Christian Pfeffer wrote that “it is useful and important to publish well documented failures, such as with...
Likewise, Olsen’s JNRBM itself has had only a handful of submissions since it was launched last fall. In their introductory editorial, Olsen and Pfeffer address some of the most important reasons why scientists may be wary of publishing negative results. The first reason is that it could give crucial information to competitors who may be able to use those negative results to beat everyone else to an important positive result. This problem is magnified for scientists who are the first to publish negative results. Those researchers benefit very little from the sparse numbers of negative results published...
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