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There is also one one of them. If their thesis is correct, that more than 60% of the experiments fail to produce results or expected discoveries, then there should be many, many of these journals constantly publishing negative results for each subfield in research.

What's missing is a respect for the other half of "objectivity", that being an acceptance of the negative or null result. It's as important as positive results.




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