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0 pointsfn-mote2y ago0 comments

> We need a Journal of Medicore Results, or a Journal of Tried it and it Didn't Work.

Publication in this journal would be used as evidence against lawsuits.

Cigarette companies paid for studies designed to produce no conclusive evidence.

I don't see this as a route to progress. What if all you did wrong was follow the wrong process? The bacteria grows better at 10C than 30C. This journal would be full of results by fools and charlatans. The inclusion criteria would have to be much more complex for it to be useful.

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Vaslo2y ago· 1 in thread

Former chemist here. I disagree - you try many many reactions that fail. It would be good to just see what was tried so you can 1) see what was tried so you can change the conditions and try again or 2) avoid an approach altogether. I joke in many of the forums here about making The journal of Failed Chemistry. But I am very serious about saving time so 10 different PhD candidates don’t waste the same time I did.

thomastjeffery2y ago

Better yet, your documented "failure" may be an unknown path to "success" in someone else's research context.

This would basically be the same as caching the results of a brute-force attack; except instead of trying to break the entropy of encryption, we are trying to unravel the entropy of chemistry and physics.

ryanmcbride2y ago

Bad actors will act bad in any environment in which they're able

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