Just a comment: "positive" results can also be due to poor experimental skills and/or lack of attention to detail etc..... Peer review should take care of this, at least to some extent. Negative results can be very valuable.
Bert ________________________________________ From: CCP4 bulletin board [CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Victor Bolanos-Garcia [vic...@cryst.bioc.cam.ac.uk] Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 7:55 AM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Fwd: Could Biological Negative Results be published? Dear David In addition to what Partha and Tim have just said, what if the negative results are simply due to poor experimental skills and/or lack of attention to detail?. I guess my question is would a journal that publishes negative results be rapidly populated with junk data?. Kind regards Victor From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Partha Chakrabarti Sent: 11 July 2011 12:06 To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Fwd: Could Biological Negative Results be published? What if the negative results contradict some recent papers in big journals? Would the PI risk his / her contacts & connections? Of course for the PhD student or postdoc, it matters a lot to get it 'published'.. On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Bosch, Juergen <jubo...@jhsph.edu<mailto:jubo...@jhsph.edu>> wrote: http://www.jnrbm.com/ Might this be what you are looking for ? Jürgen ...................... Jürgen Bosch Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute 615 North Wolfe Street, W8708 Baltimore, MD 21205 Phone: +1-410-614-4742 Lab: +1-410-614-4894 Fax: +1-410-955-3655 http://web.mac.com/bosch_lab/ On Jul 11, 2011, at 6:03 AM, F.Xavier Gomis-Rüth wrote: Dear CCP4ers, I think this is a very interesting initiative and it could potentially lead to a discussion within the board. Best, Xavier -------- Mensaje original -------- Asunto: Could Biological Negative Results be published? Fecha: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 21:39:52 -0500 De: David Alcantara <listmas...@mail.arjournals.com><mailto:listmas...@mail.arjournals.com> Para: f...@ibmb.csic.es<mailto:f...@ibmb.csic.es> Dear colleague, As you are well aware it is common in our field that many of our endeavors do not lead to the results we want or expect. Numerous tests and experiments have outcomes that we share with our immediate colleagues during informal meetings, but that we are not considering material for publication. As a result a wealth of information is never brought to the attention of the greater public, which is not only unfortunate, but also has others repeating similar studies to produce the same negative results. Not only are a lot of resources like time and money wasted in this way, but it also leads to frustration that could have been prevented if only the scientists would have been aware of the negative results of earlier studies. 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