Negative or Null Results: Will Researchers Share?
Hilary Spencer
Monday, 03 December 2007 21:59 UTC
Apologies for the cross posting, but I thought some members of this forum might be interested in this thread which follows up on a conference held last month on the future of scientific publishing.
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refero es secundum, questions es pro
A result, negative or not, is a truth, a discovery. And, as Thomas Edison remarked, one doesn’t fail, one only finds 10,000 ways that things don’t work.
Provided a good platform, or if just asked, researchers will almost always share negative results.
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