Researchers report their successes to funders every year. Make them report their failures too, in a structured, searchable way.
Annual progress reports to funders describe positive findings. A mandatory structured field for hypotheses tested and not supported, with model system and readout, shared across funders and made searchable (with an embargo if requested), would create a negative-results database as a by-product of existing paperwork.
Shares A registry for preclinical experiments that did not work, Compliance with results reporting at ClinicalTrials.gov, Failures are hidden.
Shares A registry for preclinical experiments that did not work, Compliance with results reporting at ClinicalTrials.gov, Failures are hidden, Cancer Research UK.
Shares Failures are hidden, Cancer Research UK, National Cancer Institute (NIH).
Shares Compliance with results reporting at ClinicalTrials.gov, Failures are hidden.
Shares A registry for preclinical experiments that did not work, Failures are hidden.
Shares Failures are hidden, Cancer Research UK, National Cancer Institute (NIH).
Shares A registry for preclinical experiments that did not work, Failures are hidden.
Shares Compliance with results reporting at ClinicalTrials.gov, Failures are hidden.