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		erikpukinskis on Feb 6, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amgen publishes failures to replicate high-profile... Everything should be published: positive results, negative results, positive confirmations, negative confirmations. Journals should only judge studies based on the quality of the science, not based on the "interestingness" of the outcome.

sdabdoub on Feb 6, 2016 [–]

PLoS One and Nature Scientific Reports do exactly this (and I'm sure there are others I'm not aware of), but the list does need to be expanded.

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