Jay Bhattacharya on publishing negative results and productive failures: recommends

Bhattacharya backs an NIH journal for replication studies and what he calls failed-result drawers, arguing that failed results should be citable rather than hidden — a position he stated in a Patriek Karayil interview around June 2026. His reasoning, as he framed it there, is that null and negative findings carry scientific information the literature currently suppresses: keeping them in lab drawers means other researchers cannot learn from them, cannot cite them, and may waste resources re-running experiments already known to fail. The proposal sits within his broader replication agenda, which treats confirmability — not novelty — as the mark of reliable science.

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