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NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 2 days agoTheoretically yes, but in practice, negative results don’t usually get published. People don’t want to fund negative results. Every fu ding agency is always chasing novelty, and impact. Our scientific community is actually kind of bad with actually doing science. We are lucky if we get negative results widely known these days.
thevoidzero@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’ll keep saying it. Let’s have a journal system for negative results and replication studies. Give partial credits for it relative to journal papers with novelty.
So if you have an idea you can search there, see if someone has tried it and failed, and how they failed. You can also search a certain paper and see if people have replicated the study.
It’ll help everyone immensely.