There is zero incentive for the researcher personally to publish null results.

Null results are the foundations on which “glossy” results are produced. Researchers would be wasting time giving away their competitive advantage by publishing null results.

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zeroCalories 5 days ago | parent [-]

What do you mean glossy results? Wouldn't it be to your advantage to take down another researcher? Or do you mean they use null results to construct a better theory for more credit?

	▲	j7ake 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Glossy results are memeable stories that editors of journals would like to have in their next edition. There is very little incentive in publicly criticising a paper, there is incentive to show why others are wrong and why your new technically superior method solves the problem and finds new insights to the field.