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[โ€“] Gork@lemm.ee 53 points 1 year ago (4 children)

There should be more value placed in publishing things that didn't work as hypothesized. That way scientists in the future can know if a particular approach just doesn't work.

Something like this, but completely normalized in the scientific world, where it's ok to publish attempts, whether they succeed or not.

[โ€“] jeffhykin@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I think we can agree "Good reseach" is in the how-its-done. I wish journals would chose/require/verify the how-its-done (time frame, resources, hypothesis, method etc) but after that be contractually required publish whatever conclusion is discovered by the team/project they picked and verified.

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